Users will soon have a updated setting that enables them to reduce the volume of AI-made content appearing in their streams. This step comes as the company announced that it currently hosts more than 1 billion AI-generated clips.
Testing and Rollout
The update is in a pilot phase over the coming weeks before a widespread rollout. This development comes amid a rise in content created by AI, spurred by recent video-generation tools.
The Broader AI Trend
It has been noted that almost a tenth of the most rapidly expanding channels on a competing service only show content made by AI. A significant portion of this output is deemed “AI slop”, a phrase for poor-quality, factory-style content that is often nonsensical or dreamlike.
Based on user feedback that many people appreciate content produced via AI tools, ranging from computer-generated images to educational videos, and we aim to offer the community the ability to adjust the amount of that, based on their own preferences,” commented a company executive.
AI on the Platform
The service announced that there are now 1.3bn videos on its service identified as artificially created. In total, in excess of 100 mn videos are added to the service each day, making AI content a relatively small part of its overall inventory.
Customizing Your Feed
Users will be capable of reduce or increase the volume of artificial media they see by accessing the “manage topic” setting in the application and selecting AI-made media. Other topics that currently be controlled under the filter cover current affairs, clothing, aesthetics, and movement.
Content Labeling and Policies
Its policies mandate users to tag convincing AI-generated content, and it bans malicious deepfakes of celebrities or crisis events. Any authentic-looking AI-generated clip that is not labeled can be taken down under its terms of service.
Additionally, the platform will from now on apply an artificially created watermark to content made using its own AI tools, or identified by an cross-platform project for spotting content made by AI. This step is intended to help prevent users from seeking to evade the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
TikTok is additionally establishing a two million dollar AI literacy fund for professionals and groups to produce learning resources about using AI responsibly. This project will support non-profit groups specializing in training programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
The platform has supported its content review process, following debate over intentions to make redundant numerous content moderators in Britain. The company is set to cut hundreds of positions in its user protection team in its British office, with trade unions and internet security professionals expressing worry that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.
A company official explained that human moderation would continue to be important, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by filtering out the most graphic content before it has to be seen by humans. The company announced a significant reduction in shocking and graphic content seen by content reviewers over the past year due to reliance on its automated systems.
It is vital to balance humans and technology to keep the platform safe,” the executive stated. “We’ll have humans as involved in the system, but we also think it’s extremely critical to limit contact with harmful content as quickly as possible, which is where a lot of the machine support is proving valuable operate efficiently.”
