The platform is rolling out a new feature that permits them to reduce the volume of AI-made videos appearing in their timelines. This initiative comes as the service revealed that it presently contains in excess of 1 thousand million AI-generated clips.
Testing and Rollout
The update is being tested over the next few weeks before a widespread rollout. This advancement comes amid a rise in content created by AI, driven by recent video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Studies have shown that nearly one in 10 of the quickest rising channels on a popular video site primarily display AI-generated videos. A considerable share of this output is classified as “AI slop”, a phrase for poor-quality, bulk-generated content that is often absurd or bizarre.
“We know from our community that numerous viewers like content created using AI tools, including digital art to informative clips, and we aim to offer the community the option to increase or decrease of that, depending on their own likes,” commented a company executive.
Scale of AI Content
The platform announced that there are now 1.3bn videos on its network identified as artificially created. Overall, in excess of 100 m pieces of content are submitted to the platform every day, making AI content a limited percentage of its complete catalog.
How to Adjust Settings
Users will be capable of reduce or increase the amount of AI content they view by accessing the content preference option in the app and choosing AI-made media. Additional categories that are already be adjusted under the filter cover news, fashion, cosmetics, and choreography.
Content Labeling and Policies
Its guidelines require content makers to tag “realistic” AI-generated content, and it forbids malicious fake videos of public figures or emergencies. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be removed under its community policies.
Furthermore, the app will henceforth attach an artificially created tag to content produced via its proprietary AI systems, or detected by an cross-platform project for identifying content made by AI. This measure is intended to stop users from attempting to bypass the tagging system.
Responsible AI Funding
TikTok is additionally establishing a two million dollar educational fund for professionals and institutions to create educational content about ethical AI use. This project will assist non-profit groups dedicated to training coding and technology.
Moderation Strategy
TikTok has defended its safety measures, during controversy over intentions to make redundant numerous review team members in the UK. The company is planning to eliminate hundreds of positions in its content moderation department in the UK capital, with trade unions and online safety experts raising concerns that humans are being replaced by automated systems.
A senior executive stated that human moderation would continue to be important, but AI can protect employees by removing the most graphic content before it is viewed by people. The platform stated a notable drop in shocking and graphic content reviewed by content reviewers over the previous year due to the use of its AI tools.
“We think that it’s essential to integrate people and machines to ensure user safety,” the official commented. “We’ll have staff as integral to the approach, but we further consider it’s extremely critical to minimize viewing of dangerous material as rapidly, which is why a extensive automated help is making a difference operate efficiently.”
