Users will soon have a new feature that enables them to reduce the quantity of artificial intelligence-produced videos appearing in their streams. This step comes as the platform announced that it currently hosts over 1 bn AI videos.
Trial and Implementation
The update is in a pilot phase over the following weeks before a widespread release. This development aligns with a increase in AI content, fueled by emerging content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that approximately one in 10 of the quickest rising video streams on another major platform primarily display content made by AI. A considerable share of this content is classified as “AI slop”, a term for poor-quality, factory-style content that is frequently absurd or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that many people appreciate content made with AI tools, from digital art to educational videos, and we aim to offer the community the power to increase or decrease of that, depending on their own preferences,” said a platform representative.
Volume and Proportions
TikTok announced that there are presently 1.3bn videos on its network identified as AI-generated. In total, over 100 mn media items are added to the app daily, making AI-generated material a limited part of its total content library.
How to Adjust Settings
Viewers will be able to decrease or raise the volume of AI-generated videos they watch by accessing the “manage topic” feature in the application and choosing AI-made media. Further subjects that currently be adjusted under the tool cover news, fashion, cosmetics, and choreography.
Content Labeling and Policies
Its rules oblige content makers to tag “realistic” AI-made content, and it forbids harmful fake videos of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any believable artificial content that is without a tag can be removed under its terms of service.
Additionally, the service will henceforth add an artificially created label to content made using its own AI tools, or detected by an industry-wide initiative for identifying artificial media. This action is aimed to stop users from trying to circumvent the labeling process.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is furthermore launching a two million dollar educational fund for professionals and groups to produce informative material about ethical AI use. This program will benefit educational bodies focused on educating coding and technology.
Platform Protection
TikTok has supported its moderation strategy, during controversy over intentions to make redundant a large number of safety staff in the United Kingdom. It is planning to eliminate a significant number of roles in its user protection team in the UK capital, with labor groups and internet security professionals voicing alarm that humans are being replaced by machine-led review.
A company official stated that people-led review would remain essential, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by filtering out the most distressing content ahead of it is viewed by humans. The platform stated a 76% decrease in shocking and graphic content handled by safety staff over the previous year due to reliance on its automated systems.
We believe it is crucial to combine people and machines to ensure user safety,” the official commented. “We’ll have humans as part of that process, but we further consider it’s very important to reduce exposure to harmful content as swiftly, which is where a lot of the machine support is really helping us process content quickly.”
