Users will soon have a fresh option that allows them to lessen the amount of artificial intelligence-produced videos appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the platform disclosed that it currently hosts over 1 bn content made with AI.
Testing and Rollout
This change is being tested over the following weeks before a global launch. This development comes amid a surge in AI-generated material, driven by new video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that almost one in 10 of the quickest rising channels on a competing service exclusively feature content made by AI. A considerable share of this output is deemed “AI slop”, a label for poor-quality, factory-style content that is frequently absurd or surreal.
Our research shows that a lot of users enjoy content created using AI tools, ranging from computer-generated images to science explainers, and we aim to offer the community the ability to adjust the amount of that, depending on their own choices,” said a spokesperson.
Volume and Proportions
The platform shared that there are now 1.3 billion videos on its app labeled as artificially created. Collectively, more than 100 million media items are submitted to the app every day, making AI content a limited part of its overall inventory.
How to Adjust Settings
Members will be able to decrease or raise the volume of artificial media they watch by accessing the content preference feature in the application and choosing AI-made media. Further subjects that are already be adjusted under the setting encompass news, clothing, aesthetics, and movement.
Platform Guidelines
Its guidelines mandate creators to label “realistic” artificially created content, and it forbids dangerous deepfakes of well-known individuals or emergencies. Any authentic-looking AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be taken down under its user guidelines.
In addition, the service will henceforth attach an “AI-made” label to content made using its proprietary AI systems, or flagged by an industry-wide initiative for recognizing AI-generated material. This step is aimed to stop users from seeking to evade the tagging system.
AI Literacy Programs
TikTok is additionally introducing a $2m AI literacy fund for experts and institutions to produce educational content about ethical AI use. This project will benefit non-profit groups dedicated to training programming and robotics.
Content Safety Approach
The video-sharing app has defended its safety measures, amid discussion over plans to make redundant hundreds of review team members in Britain. TikTok is planning to eliminate 439 jobs in its content moderation department in the UK capital, with trade unions and internet security professionals expressing worry that humans are being replaced by AI moderation.
A company official clarified that human moderation would remain essential, but automated tools can protect employees by filtering out the most harmful content before it is viewed by humans. The platform stated a notable drop in explicit and harmful content seen by human moderators over the previous year due to intervention by its automated systems.
We believe it is crucial to integrate people and machines to ensure user safety,” she said. “We’ll have humans as integral to the approach, but we additionally believe it’s very important to minimize viewing of harmful content as swiftly, which is the area in which a extensive automated help is proving valuable work at speed.”
