Users will soon have a updated setting that allows them to reduce the amount of AI-made videos appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the platform disclosed that it presently contains in excess of 1 billion content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
This change is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a widespread release. This development comes amid a surge in AI-generated material, spurred by emerging AI video creators.
AI Proliferation Online
Recent reports that almost 10% of the fastest-growing content creators on another major platform only show clips produced artificially. A considerable share of this content is deemed mass-produced AI material, a term for inferior, bulk-generated content that is often absurd or bizarre.
“We know from our community that a lot of users like content produced via AI tools, from digital art to science explainers, and we want to provide users the ability to adjust the amount of that, depending on their own preferences,” stated a spokesperson.
AI on the Platform
The service announced that there are presently 1.3bn videos on its network identified as made with AI. Overall, in excess of 100 m videos are uploaded to the app every day, making AI content a limited portion of its overall inventory.
Customizing Your Feed
Users will be able to decrease or raise the amount of AI-generated videos they view by accessing the “manage topic” option in the platform and picking the AI content topic. Additional categories that can already be controlled under the setting encompass politics, fashion, beauty, and movement.
Platform Guidelines
TikTok’s policies oblige creators to label lifelike AI-made content, and it forbids harmful AI impersonations of public figures or critical incidents. Any realistic artificial content that is not labeled can be taken down under its community policies.
In addition, the service will henceforth add an artificially created tag to content produced via its built-in AI features, or identified by an collaborative effort for spotting artificial media. This measure is intended to stop users from attempting to evade the tagging system.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is additionally introducing a $2m AI literacy fund for specialists and organizations to produce learning resources about ethical AI use. This program will support non-profit groups dedicated to teaching programming and robotics.
Moderation Strategy
TikTok has justified its moderation strategy, during debate over intentions to cut jobs for hundreds of content moderators in the UK. The company is planning to cut a significant number of roles in its user protection department in London, with trade unions and digital protection specialists raising concerns that staff are being displaced by automated systems.
A senior executive explained that staff-based oversight would remain essential, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by filtering out the most graphic content before it is viewed by humans. The company stated a significant reduction in shocking and graphic content seen by human moderators over the previous year due to reliance on its AI tools.
We believe it is crucial to combine staff and AI to ensure user safety,” the executive stated. “We’ll have humans as part of that process, but we additionally believe it’s extremely critical to reduce exposure to harmful content as quickly as possible, which is the area in which a lot of the machine support is making a difference work at speed.”
