TikTok is introducing a fresh option that allows them to reduce the amount of AI-created content appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the service disclosed that it now features over 1 billion AI videos.
Testing and Rollout
This change is undergoing trials over the next few weeks before a widespread launch. This development comes amid a surge in AI content, spurred by emerging AI video creators.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that approximately a tenth of the fastest-growing video streams on another major platform exclusively feature clips produced artificially. A considerable share of this material is classified as “AI slop”, a phrase for poor-quality, bulk-generated content that is often nonsensical or surreal.
Our research shows that numerous viewers like content created using AI tools, from AI artwork to science explainers, and we intend to provide users the option to adjust the amount of that, based on their own choices,” commented a company executive.
Volume and Proportions
TikTok disclosed that there are presently 1.3bn videos on its app tagged as AI-generated. Collectively, in excess of 100 million media items are added to the platform every day, making clips made by AI a relatively small percentage of its complete catalog.
How to Adjust Settings
Members will be capable of limit or boost the volume of AI-generated videos they watch by accessing the topic control setting in the application and choosing the AI content topic. Additional categories that can already be controlled under the filter include current affairs, style, beauty, and dance.
Content Labeling and Policies
Its policies oblige creators to tag “realistic” artificially created content, and it bans dangerous fake videos of celebrities or emergencies. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is unmarked can be deleted under its terms of service.
Additionally, the app will now apply an “AI-made” label to content produced via its built-in AI features, or identified by an cross-platform project for identifying AI-generated material. This measure is intended to stop users from trying to circumvent the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
TikTok is furthermore establishing a $2 million educational fund for specialists and organizations to create learning resources about ethical AI use. This initiative will support charitable organizations specializing in educating programming and robotics.
Moderation Strategy
The video-sharing app has defended its moderation strategy, during debate over proposals to make redundant a large number of review team members in the United Kingdom. The company is expected to eliminate 439 jobs in its trust and safety division in its British office, with worker representatives and digital protection specialists expressing worry that staff are being displaced by machine-led review.
A company official clarified that staff-based oversight would continue to be important, but AI can safeguard staff by eliminating the most distressing content before it gets reviewed by people. The platform announced a significant reduction in shocking and graphic content handled by human moderators over the previous year due to the use of its AI tools.
We believe it is crucial to integrate staff and AI to ensure user safety,” she said. “We’ll have staff as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s extremely critical to reduce exposure to dangerous material as quickly as possible, which is the area in which a lot of the machine support is proving valuable process content quickly.”
