Users will soon have a updated setting that enables them to lessen the volume of AI-created content appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the company revealed that it currently hosts more than 1 billion AI-generated clips.
Trial and Implementation
The new functionality is in a pilot phase over the next few weeks before a global release. This development aligns with a rise in AI content, fueled by emerging video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that approximately 10% of the quickest rising content creators on a popular video site exclusively feature content made by AI. A large amount of this content is considered “AI slop”, a label for poor-quality, bulk-generated content that is typically absurd or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that many people like content made with AI tools, ranging from digital art to science explainers, and we intend to offer the community the option to adjust the amount of that, according to their own likes,” said a spokesperson.
Volume and Proportions
The service shared that there are currently over a billion videos on its network tagged as AI-generated. Overall, more than 100 m media items are submitted to the platform each day, making AI-generated material a relatively small portion of its complete catalog.
Customizing Your Feed
Members will be capable of reduce or increase the level of AI-generated videos they see by accessing the “manage topic” setting in the platform and picking AI-made media. Other topics that are already be adjusted under the setting cover politics, clothing, beauty, and dance.
Content Labeling and Policies
Its guidelines oblige creators to tag lifelike AI-made content, and it forbids malicious AI impersonations of public figures or crisis events. Any believable AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be taken down under its community policies.
Additionally, the service will from now on attach an AI-generated watermark to content created with its proprietary AI systems, or detected by an collaborative effort for recognizing artificial media. This measure is aimed to help prevent users from seeking to evade the disclosure requirement.
Educational Initiatives
The platform is also establishing a $2 million educational fund for specialists and groups to create learning resources about ethical AI use. This project will support non-profit groups specializing in teaching programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
The platform has defended its moderation strategy, amid debate over proposals to cut jobs for numerous review team members in the United Kingdom. TikTok is planning to eliminate hundreds of positions in its user protection department in the UK capital, with worker representatives and internet security professionals voicing alarm that staff are being displaced by automated systems.
A senior executive explained that people-led review would continue to be important, but automated tools can protect employees by filtering out the most harmful content prior to it is viewed by humans. TikTok announced a significant reduction in shocking and graphic content seen by content reviewers over the last 12 months due to the use of its automated systems.
“We think that it’s essential to integrate people and machines to ensure user safety,” she said. “We’ll have people as integral to the approach, but we further consider it’s highly necessary to reduce exposure to harmful content as quickly as possible, which is where a significant AI assistance is making a difference work at speed.”
