Users will soon have a new feature that allows them to cut down on the amount of AI-created videos appearing in their streams. This step comes as the service disclosed that it currently hosts more than 1 billion AI videos.
Testing and Rollout
This change is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a full-scale launch. This shift aligns with a increase in AI-generated material, spurred by emerging content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that almost 10% of the fastest-growing content creators on another major platform primarily display content made by AI. A considerable share of this output is classified as “AI slop”, a phrase for substandard, factory-style content that is often absurd or dreamlike.
Based on user feedback that many people appreciate content created using AI tools, including computer-generated images to educational videos, and we intend to provide users the option to see more or less of that, depending on their own likes,” commented a company executive.
Volume and Proportions
TikTok disclosed that there are now over a billion videos on its network labeled as AI-generated. Collectively, more than 100 mn videos are submitted to the service each day, making AI-generated material a relatively small percentage of its total content library.
Customizing Your Feed
Viewers will be capable of reduce or increase the amount of AI-generated videos they see by opening the “manage topic” setting in the application and selecting AI-made media. Additional categories that are already be controlled under the filter cover current affairs, clothing, cosmetics, and choreography.
Platform Guidelines
Its policies require creators to tag lifelike AI-generated content, and it prohibits malicious AI impersonations of well-known individuals or critical incidents. Any realistic artificial content that is unmarked can be removed under its community policies.
Furthermore, the platform will from now on apply an “AI-made” tag to content made using its built-in AI features, or flagged by an cross-platform project for recognizing artificial media. This action is aimed to help prevent users from trying to bypass the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
TikTok is furthermore launching a $2 million awareness program for specialists and organizations to create educational content about ethical AI use. This project will assist educational bodies focused on training coding and technology.
Content Safety Approach
The video-sharing app has defended its content review process, amid debate over proposals to cut jobs for hundreds of content moderators in Britain. TikTok is planning to eliminate hundreds of positions in its user protection division in London, with labor groups and digital protection specialists expressing worry that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.
A senior executive clarified that staff-based oversight would continue to be important, but AI can safeguard staff by filtering out the most distressing content prior to it gets reviewed by humans. TikTok stated a significant reduction in disturbing and violent content handled by human moderators over the last 12 months due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
We believe it is crucial to combine people and machines to maintain a secure environment,” the official commented. “We’ll have humans as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s highly necessary to reduce exposure to dangerous material as swiftly, which is where a extensive automated help is really helping us work at speed.”
