Users will soon have a updated setting that allows them to lessen the volume of artificial intelligence-produced content appearing in their streams. This move comes as the service announced that it currently hosts more than 1 billion AI-generated clips.
Pilot Phase and Launch
The update is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a global release. This development aligns with a rise in AI content, spurred by recent video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that approximately a tenth of the most rapidly expanding video streams on another major platform primarily display content made by AI. A considerable share of this material is classified as “AI slop”, a term for inferior, mass-produced content that is often nonsensical or bizarre.
Based on user feedback that many people appreciate content made with AI tools, from AI artwork to informative clips, and we aim to provide users the ability to increase or decrease of that, depending on their own likes,” commented a platform representative.
Scale of AI Content
The platform disclosed that there are currently over a billion videos on its service identified as artificially created. Overall, more than 100 m pieces of content are uploaded to the service daily, making AI-generated material a limited part of its total content library.
User Control Features
Users will be able to limit or boost the level of AI-generated videos they see by accessing the content preference option in the application and selecting “AI-generated content”. Further subjects that can already be controlled under the filter cover news, style, aesthetics, and movement.
AI Disclosure Rules
The platform’s policies oblige users to identify convincing AI-generated content, and it forbids harmful AI impersonations of well-known individuals or critical incidents. Any believable AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be taken down under its user guidelines.
In addition, the platform will from now on apply an artificially created watermark to content made using its built-in AI features, or flagged by an cross-platform project for spotting artificial media. This measure is aimed to deter users from attempting to evade the tagging system.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is furthermore establishing a $2 million awareness program for specialists and organizations to produce educational content about using AI responsibly. This project will support charitable organizations specializing in teaching programming and robotics.
Moderation Strategy
TikTok has justified its content review process, during controversy over intentions to cut jobs for hundreds of content moderators in the UK. The company is planning to reduce a significant number of roles in its content moderation team in London, with labor groups and online safety experts expressing worry that people are being substituted by AI moderation.
A company official clarified that human moderation would continue to be important, but automated tools can safeguard staff by eliminating the most harmful content ahead of it is viewed by people. TikTok announced a notable drop in disturbing and violent content seen by human moderators over the past year due to intervention by its AI tools.
It is vital to combine people and machines to keep the platform safe,” she said. “We’ll have people as part of that process, but we further consider it’s highly necessary to limit contact with harmful content as rapidly, which is where a extensive automated help is proving valuable operate efficiently.”
