Users will soon have a new feature that allows them to cut down on the quantity of AI-made media appearing in their streams. This move comes as the service disclosed that it now features more than 1 thousand million content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
The update is undergoing trials over the next few weeks before a global release. This advancement comes amid a surge in AI-generated material, spurred by recent video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that approximately 10% of the quickest rising video streams on a popular video site only show AI-generated videos. A considerable share of this content is classified as “AI slop”, a phrase for substandard, factory-style content that is often nonsensical or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that numerous viewers appreciate content created using AI tools, ranging from AI artwork to science explainers, and we aim to provide users the option to adjust the amount of that, according to their own likes,” commented a spokesperson.
Scale of AI Content
TikTok announced that there are currently 1.3 billion videos on its service identified as made with AI. Collectively, over 100 mn media items are submitted to the app each day, making AI-generated material a limited portion of its total content library.
Customizing Your Feed
Members will be in a position to limit or boost the amount of artificial media they see by accessing the content preference setting in the app and picking AI-made media. Other topics that can already be controlled under the setting encompass news, style, cosmetics, and choreography.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s policies require creators to label convincing AI-generated content, and it forbids dangerous fake videos of well-known individuals or emergencies. Any believable artificial content that is without a tag can be taken down under its terms of service.
Additionally, the app will henceforth apply an artificially created label to content created with its built-in AI features, or detected by an industry-wide initiative for spotting content made by AI. This step is intended to help prevent users from trying to circumvent the disclosure requirement.
AI Literacy Programs
TikTok is also establishing a two million dollar educational fund for professionals and groups to create informative material about ethical AI use. This project will assist non-profit groups dedicated to educating programming and robotics.
Moderation Strategy
TikTok has defended its content review process, amid discussion over plans to make redundant hundreds of review team members in the UK. TikTok is expected to cut hundreds of positions in its trust and safety team in the UK capital, with labor groups and online safety experts raising concerns that people are being substituted by machine-led review.
A senior executive clarified that people-led review would continue to be important, but automated tools can shield workers by eliminating the most graphic content ahead of it is viewed by people. TikTok stated a 76% decrease in disturbing and violent content handled by safety staff over the past year due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
We believe it is crucial to balance people and machines to ensure user safety,” she said. “We’ll have humans as part of that process, but we further consider it’s highly necessary to limit contact with dangerous material as rapidly, which is where a lot of the machine support is proving valuable process content quickly.”
