Users will soon have a updated setting that allows them to cut down on the amount of AI-made videos appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the service disclosed that it presently contains over 1 thousand million content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
This change is being tested over the following weeks before a widespread launch. This shift aligns with a surge in AI content, driven by emerging content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Studies have shown that nearly a tenth of the most rapidly expanding channels on another major platform exclusively feature clips produced artificially. A significant portion of this content is considered “AI slop”, a label for poor-quality, bulk-generated content that is typically absurd or bizarre.
Our research shows that a lot of users enjoy content produced via AI tools, including AI artwork to educational videos, and we intend to give people the option to see more or less of that, depending on their own preferences,” said a company executive.
Volume and Proportions
The service disclosed that there are currently 1.3bn videos on its service labeled as artificially created. Overall, more than 100 million media items are added to the platform daily, making AI content a relatively small percentage of its overall inventory.
User Control Features
Members will be able to decrease or raise the volume of AI-generated videos they watch by opening the topic control setting in the application and selecting the AI content topic. Other topics that are already be controlled under the tool encompass current affairs, fashion, aesthetics, and dance.
Platform Guidelines
TikTok’s rules mandate creators to tag convincing artificially created content, and it bans malicious fake videos of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any realistic AI video that is unmarked can be taken down under its terms of service.
Additionally, the platform will henceforth add an AI-generated tag to content produced via its own AI tools, or identified by an cross-platform project for recognizing AI-generated material. This action is designed to help prevent users from seeking to evade the disclosure requirement.
Responsible AI Funding
TikTok is furthermore launching a $2m awareness program for specialists and organizations to develop educational content about using AI responsibly. This initiative will assist charitable organizations focused on teaching computer science.
Moderation Strategy
The video-sharing app has supported its moderation strategy, during debate over plans to make redundant hundreds of content moderators in the UK. The company is planning to cut 439 jobs in its content moderation department in the UK capital, with labor groups and internet security professionals raising concerns that people are being substituted by machine-led review.
A trust and safety lead clarified that human moderation would remain essential, but automated tools can shield workers by removing the most distressing content ahead of it is viewed by staff. The platform stated a notable drop in explicit and harmful content handled by safety staff over the past year due to reliance on its machine learning processes.
“We think that it’s essential to combine people and machines to maintain a secure environment,” 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 extensive automated help is proving valuable process content quickly.”
