The platform is rolling out a fresh option that allows them to lessen the amount of AI-created content appearing in their timelines. This step comes as the company revealed that it currently hosts over 1 bn AI-generated clips.
Testing and Rollout
The new functionality is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a full-scale launch. This development aligns with a surge in content created by AI, spurred by recent video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that approximately one in 10 of the quickest rising video streams on a competing service primarily display content made by AI. A large amount of this output is classified as “AI slop”, a term for inferior, factory-style content that is frequently absurd or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that many people like content produced via AI tools, ranging from digital art to science explainers, and we want to provide users the ability to adjust the amount of that, based on their own likes,” stated a platform representative.
Volume and Proportions
The platform shared that there are now 1.3 billion videos on its app labeled as AI-generated. Collectively, more than 100 million media items are uploaded to the app each day, making AI-generated material a minor part of its total content library.
Customizing Your Feed
Members will be capable of decrease or raise the amount of artificial media they watch by accessing the “manage topic” feature in the platform and picking the AI content topic. Other topics that can already be controlled under the filter include news, style, beauty, and choreography.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s guidelines require content makers to tag lifelike AI-made content, and it forbids dangerous AI impersonations of celebrities or crisis events. Any realistic AI video that is not labeled can be deleted under its user guidelines.
Furthermore, the platform will henceforth add an AI-generated tag to content made using its proprietary AI systems, or identified by an industry-wide initiative for recognizing artificial media. This step is designed to help prevent users from trying to circumvent the disclosure requirement.
Responsible AI Funding
TikTok is also introducing a two million dollar awareness program for professionals and groups to create informative material about using AI responsibly. This initiative will assist educational bodies focused on training coding and technology.
Moderation Strategy
The video-sharing app has justified its safety measures, following controversy over proposals to lay off a large number of safety staff in the United Kingdom. It is expected to reduce a significant number of roles in its content moderation team in London, with trade unions and online safety experts voicing alarm that humans are being replaced by automated systems.
A company official clarified that staff-based oversight would still have a role, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by eliminating the most graphic content before it has to be seen by people. TikTok stated a 76% decrease in disturbing and violent content handled by safety staff over the past year due to the use of its AI tools.
It is vital to integrate people and machines to maintain a secure environment,” the executive stated. “We’ll have people as integral to the approach, but we also think it’s highly necessary to minimize viewing of unsafe media as quickly as possible, which is why a lot of the machine support is proving valuable operate efficiently.”
