Users will soon have a fresh option that allows them to lessen the quantity of AI-made content appearing in their timelines. This initiative comes as the service disclosed that it currently hosts in excess of 1 thousand million AI videos.
Testing and Rollout
The new functionality is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a global launch. This advancement comes amid a surge in AI content, fueled by emerging content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Studies have shown that nearly one in 10 of the quickest rising video streams on a competing service exclusively feature AI-generated videos. A large amount of this material is classified as “AI slop”, a term for substandard, bulk-generated content that is often illogical or bizarre.
Based on user feedback that many people appreciate content produced via AI tools, ranging from AI artwork to informative clips, and we aim to offer the community the power to increase or decrease of that, depending on their own choices,” said a company executive.
Scale of AI Content
The platform disclosed that there are currently 1.3bn videos on its network identified as made with AI. Overall, in excess of 100 m media items are submitted to the platform each day, making AI content a relatively small part of its overall inventory.
Customizing Your Feed
Viewers will be capable of decrease or raise the amount of AI content they watch by opening the content preference setting in the app and selecting AI-made media. Further subjects that currently be controlled under the tool cover current affairs, clothing, aesthetics, and choreography.
Content Labeling and Policies
The platform’s rules require creators to tag “realistic” AI-made content, and it prohibits harmful AI impersonations of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any realistic artificial content that is unmarked can be removed under its user guidelines.
In addition, the service will now add an artificially created tag to content made using its own AI tools, or detected by an collaborative effort for spotting artificial media. This action is intended to deter users from attempting to bypass the labeling process.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is also introducing a $2 million AI literacy fund for experts and organizations to develop informative material about using AI responsibly. This project will support educational bodies focused on teaching computer science.
Platform Protection
TikTok has supported its safety measures, during controversy over plans to make redundant hundreds of safety staff in the United Kingdom. TikTok is expected to reduce 439 jobs in its trust and safety department in London, with trade unions and internet security professionals raising concerns that humans are being replaced by machine-led review.
A trust and safety lead stated that human moderation would continue to be important, but AI can protect employees by eliminating the most harmful content prior to it has to be seen by humans. TikTok announced a significant reduction in explicit and harmful content reviewed by content reviewers over the last 12 months due to reliance on its machine learning processes.
We believe it is crucial to balance humans and technology to maintain a secure environment,” she said. “We’ll have staff as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s highly necessary to minimize viewing of unsafe media as swiftly, which is the area in which a significant AI assistance is proving valuable work at speed.”
