TikTok is introducing a new feature that permits them to reduce the quantity of artificial intelligence-produced videos appearing in their feeds. This initiative comes as the service disclosed that it currently hosts in excess of 1 thousand million AI videos.
Testing and Rollout
The update is in a pilot phase over the next few weeks before a global rollout. This shift aligns with a increase in content created by AI, spurred by recent content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Studies have shown that approximately a tenth of the fastest-growing channels on a popular video site exclusively feature content made by AI. A large amount of this content is deemed “AI slop”, a label for poor-quality, bulk-generated content that is typically illogical or dreamlike.
Our research shows that numerous viewers enjoy content produced via AI tools, from AI artwork to informative clips, and we aim to provide users the ability to increase or decrease of that, based on their own preferences,” stated a company executive.
AI on the Platform
The service disclosed that there are presently over a billion videos on its network tagged as AI-generated. Overall, in excess of 100 mn media items are uploaded to the service each day, making AI-generated material a relatively small percentage of its total content library.
Customizing Your Feed
Viewers will be able to reduce or increase the amount of AI content they view by accessing the topic control feature in the app and picking the AI content topic. Other topics that currently be controlled under the tool cover current affairs, style, cosmetics, and movement.
Platform Guidelines
TikTok’s policies oblige users to identify “realistic” artificially created content, and it prohibits dangerous fake videos of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any authentic-looking artificial content that is not labeled can be deleted under its terms of service.
Furthermore, the platform will henceforth apply an “AI-made” watermark to content made using its built-in AI features, or flagged by an industry-wide initiative for identifying content made by AI. This step is intended to help prevent users from trying to evade the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
The company is additionally launching a two million dollar educational fund for professionals and institutions to develop informative material about ethical AI use. This program will support charitable organizations specializing in teaching computer science.
Platform Protection
TikTok has supported its moderation strategy, during discussion over proposals to make redundant numerous review team members in Britain. The company is set to cut a significant number of roles in its user protection department in the UK capital, with worker representatives and online safety experts raising concerns that humans are being replaced by machine-led review.
A trust and safety lead explained that staff-based oversight would still have a role, but AI can safeguard staff by filtering out the most distressing content ahead of it gets reviewed by people. The platform reported a notable drop in shocking and graphic content handled by human moderators over the past year due to the use of its AI tools.
“We think that it’s essential to balance staff and AI to keep the platform safe,” the executive stated. “We’ll have people as integral to the approach, but we further consider it’s very important to reduce exposure to unsafe media as swiftly, which is where a lot of the machine support is proving valuable operate efficiently.”
