Users will soon have a updated setting that permits them to cut down on the quantity of AI-made videos appearing in their timelines. This move comes as the company disclosed that it currently hosts in excess of 1 billion AI videos.
Trial and Implementation
The update is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a global release. This advancement coincides with a surge in content created by AI, spurred by new content generation software.
AI Proliferation Online
Studies have shown that approximately 10% of the most rapidly expanding channels on a competing service exclusively feature AI-generated videos. A considerable share of this output is considered low-quality AI content, a phrase for substandard, bulk-generated content that is typically nonsensical or bizarre.
“We know from our community that many people enjoy content created using AI tools, from digital art to informative clips, and we aim to provide users the option to increase or decrease of that, depending on their own preferences,” stated a spokesperson.
Scale of AI Content
TikTok disclosed that there are presently over a billion videos on its service identified as made with AI. Overall, more than 100 million media items are uploaded to the platform daily, making AI content a relatively small part of its complete catalog.
Customizing Your Feed
Viewers will be able to reduce or increase the amount of AI content they view by accessing the content preference feature in the app and selecting “AI-generated content”. Further subjects that are already be modified under the filter cover current affairs, fashion, beauty, and dance.
Content Labeling and Policies
Its rules mandate users to tag lifelike AI-made content, and it bans harmful deepfakes of celebrities or critical incidents. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is unmarked can be removed under its community policies.
Additionally, the platform will henceforth apply an AI-generated label to content produced via its own AI tools, or flagged by an collaborative effort for identifying artificial media. This action is designed to stop users from seeking to evade the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
TikTok is also launching a $2m educational fund for professionals and groups to create learning resources about using AI responsibly. This program will benefit charitable organizations dedicated to training programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has defended its moderation strategy, during debate over proposals to cut jobs for hundreds of review team members in Britain. The company is set to reduce hundreds of positions in its user protection department in its British office, with worker representatives and digital protection specialists raising concerns that people are being substituted by automated systems.
A senior executive stated that people-led review would remain essential, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by filtering out the most harmful content before it is viewed by people. The company reported a notable drop in shocking and graphic content handled by human moderators over the last 12 months due to reliance on its AI tools.
We believe it is crucial to integrate people and machines to maintain a secure environment,” she said. “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 significant AI assistance is proving valuable operate efficiently.”
