The platform is rolling out a new feature that permits them to lessen the amount of AI-made videos appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the service announced that it currently hosts over 1 bn content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
The update is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a widespread launch. This shift coincides with a surge in content created by AI, spurred by recent AI video creators.
AI Proliferation Online
It has been noted that almost 10% of the most rapidly expanding channels on a popular video site primarily display content made by AI. A large amount of this content is classified as low-quality AI content, a label for substandard, bulk-generated content that is frequently illogical or dreamlike.
Our research shows that many people enjoy content produced via AI tools, including digital art to informative clips, and we want to provide users the option to increase or decrease of that, depending on their own likes,” commented a platform representative.
Scale of AI Content
TikTok shared that there are presently 1.3bn videos on its network labeled as AI-generated. Collectively, more than 100 m pieces of content are submitted to the platform each day, making AI content a relatively small part of its total content library.
How to Adjust Settings
Members will be in a position to limit or boost the level of artificial media they watch by opening the topic control feature in the application and selecting AI-made media. Additional categories that are already be adjusted under the filter include current affairs, fashion, cosmetics, and movement.
Platform Guidelines
Its rules oblige content makers to label lifelike AI-generated content, and it prohibits harmful AI impersonations of public figures or crisis events. Any authentic-looking AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be removed under its community policies.
Additionally, the platform will now apply an AI-generated tag to content produced via its proprietary AI systems, or detected by an cross-platform project for recognizing artificial media. This step is intended to deter users from seeking to evade the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
The company is also introducing a $2 million AI literacy fund for specialists and institutions to produce informative material about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will support educational bodies dedicated to training computer science.
Platform Protection
TikTok has justified its content review process, during debate over plans to make redundant a large number of review team members in the UK. The company is planning to cut hundreds of positions in its user protection division in London, with trade unions and online safety experts raising concerns that humans are being replaced by AI moderation.
A senior executive clarified that human moderation would remain essential, but automated tools can protect employees by removing the most distressing content ahead of it is viewed by staff. The company announced a 76% decrease in disturbing and violent content handled by safety staff over the past year due to the use of its AI tools.
“We think that it’s essential to integrate humans and technology to ensure user safety,” she said. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s very important to limit contact with unsafe media as swiftly, which is the area in which a lot of the machine support is making a difference process content quickly.”
