Users will soon have a new feature that permits them to lessen the quantity of AI-made videos appearing in their feeds. This step comes as the service announced that it currently hosts over 1 thousand million AI videos.
Trial and Implementation
The new functionality is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a widespread launch. This development comes amid a rise in content created by AI, spurred by new AI video creators.
AI Proliferation Online
Recent reports that almost a tenth of the fastest-growing video streams on a competing service primarily display AI-generated videos. A considerable share of this material is classified as “AI slop”, a phrase for poor-quality, bulk-generated content that is frequently illogical or surreal.
Based on user feedback that many people like content made with AI tools, from digital art to science explainers, and we intend to provide users the ability to see more or less of that, according to their own preferences,” commented a platform representative.
Scale of AI Content
TikTok disclosed that there are now 1.3 billion videos on its service labeled as artificially created. Overall, more than 100 million pieces of content are uploaded to the platform each day, making AI-generated material a minor percentage of its overall inventory.
Customizing Your Feed
Viewers will be able to decrease or raise the amount of artificial media they see by accessing the content preference feature in the platform and choosing the AI content topic. Additional categories that are already be modified under the setting cover news, fashion, aesthetics, and dance.
Platform Guidelines
Its policies require users to label convincing AI-made content, and it prohibits malicious AI impersonations of well-known individuals or critical incidents. Any believable artificial content that is unmarked can be deleted under its terms of service.
Additionally, the app will now add an “AI-made” watermark to content created with its own AI tools, or detected by an collaborative effort for identifying artificial media. This action is aimed to stop users from attempting to circumvent the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
TikTok is additionally establishing a two million dollar awareness program for professionals and organizations to create educational content about using AI responsibly. This initiative will benefit non-profit groups focused on training computer science.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has defended its content review process, during discussion over plans to make redundant numerous content moderators in the UK. It is expected to reduce a significant number of roles in its content moderation division in the UK capital, with worker representatives and online safety experts expressing worry that humans are being replaced by machine-led review.
A senior executive clarified that staff-based oversight would remain essential, but AI can protect employees by filtering out the most harmful content before it is viewed by people. The company reported a significant reduction in shocking and graphic content handled by safety staff over the previous year due to intervention by its automated systems.
It is vital to combine people and machines to maintain a secure environment,” she said. “We’ll have staff as involved in the system, but we additionally believe it’s very important to reduce exposure to unsafe media as rapidly, which is where a significant AI assistance is making a difference operate efficiently.”
