The platform is rolling out a new feature that allows them to reduce the volume of AI-made media appearing in their feeds. This move comes as the service announced that it presently contains more than 1 bn content made with AI.
Testing and Rollout
This change is being tested over the next few weeks before a widespread launch. This shift aligns with a rise in content created by AI, driven by new content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that almost 10% of the quickest rising video streams on a competing service primarily display AI-generated videos. A significant portion of this material is deemed “AI slop”, a term for substandard, bulk-generated content that is frequently nonsensical or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that many people like content made with AI tools, from computer-generated images to educational videos, and we intend to provide users the option to see more or less of that, depending on their own likes,” commented a platform representative.
Volume and Proportions
The service announced that there are presently over a billion videos on its service labeled as AI-generated. Collectively, more than 100 m media items are uploaded to the platform daily, making AI-generated material a relatively small portion of its total content library.
How to Adjust Settings
Users will be able to reduce or increase the volume of artificial media they watch by accessing the content preference option in the platform and picking “AI-generated content”. Other topics that currently be modified under the setting encompass news, style, beauty, and choreography.
Platform Guidelines
Its policies require content makers to label convincing AI-generated content, and it forbids harmful AI impersonations of celebrities or critical incidents. Any authentic-looking AI video that is not labeled can be removed under its user guidelines.
Furthermore, the platform will from now on attach an AI-generated label to content produced via its own AI tools, or flagged by an cross-platform project for spotting artificial media. This measure is intended to stop users from seeking to bypass the tagging system.
AI Literacy Programs
TikTok is additionally introducing a $2m awareness program for specialists and organizations to develop informative material about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will benefit charitable organizations specializing in training computer science.
Platform Protection
TikTok has justified its content review process, amid debate over intentions to make redundant numerous content moderators in the UK. TikTok is set to reduce 439 jobs in its user protection department in the UK capital, with worker representatives and internet security professionals expressing worry that people are being substituted by machine-led review.
A trust and safety lead stated that people-led review would continue to be important, but AI can protect employees by filtering out the most graphic content prior to it gets reviewed by staff. The company stated a 76% decrease in explicit and harmful content seen by human moderators over the previous year due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
It is vital to integrate staff and AI to keep the platform safe,” the official commented. “We’ll have humans as integral to the approach, but we further consider it’s extremely critical to reduce exposure to unsafe media as rapidly, which is why a extensive automated help is really helping us work at speed.”
