Users will soon have a fresh option that enables them to cut down on the quantity of AI-created content appearing in their timelines. This initiative comes as the service announced that it now features in excess of 1 billion AI-generated clips.
Trial and Implementation
The new functionality is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a global release. This development comes amid a surge in content created by AI, spurred by recent content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that almost a tenth of the most rapidly expanding content creators on a competing service exclusively feature content made by AI. A considerable share of this content is classified as “AI slop”, a phrase for inferior, mass-produced content that is often absurd or surreal.
Based on user feedback that a lot of users like content made with AI tools, including digital art to informative clips, and we want to provide users the option to see more or less of that, according to their own choices,” stated a spokesperson.
Scale of AI Content
The platform disclosed that there are now 1.3bn videos on its service labeled as made with AI. Overall, in excess of 100 million media items are uploaded to the service every day, making AI-generated material a minor portion of its total content library.
How to Adjust Settings
Viewers will be capable of reduce or increase the level of artificial media they view by opening the content preference option in the app and picking AI-made media. Other topics that currently be modified under the tool include news, clothing, beauty, and movement.
Content Labeling and Policies
TikTok’s guidelines mandate users to label “realistic” artificially created content, and it prohibits harmful deepfakes of celebrities or critical incidents. Any authentic-looking AI-generated clip that is unmarked can be taken down under its community policies.
In addition, the platform will from now on attach an artificially created watermark to content produced via its built-in AI features, or flagged by an cross-platform project for recognizing artificial media. This action is aimed to help prevent users from trying to evade the labeling process.
AI Literacy Programs
The platform is additionally introducing a two million dollar educational fund for experts and institutions to create informative material about responsible artificial intelligence. This program will support educational bodies focused on teaching coding and technology.
Moderation Strategy
The video-sharing app has justified its safety measures, following debate over plans to cut jobs for hundreds of content moderators in the UK. The company is planning to eliminate a significant number of roles in its user protection team in its British office, with worker representatives and digital protection specialists raising concerns that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.
A senior executive stated that staff-based oversight would still have a role, but automated tools can protect employees by eliminating the most harmful content prior to it has to be seen by humans. The company announced a 76% decrease in shocking and graphic content handled by content reviewers over the past year due to the use of its AI tools.
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 also think it’s very important to minimize viewing of harmful content as swiftly, which is where a lot of the machine support is proving valuable process content quickly.”
