Users will soon have a new feature that enables them to lessen the quantity of AI-made content appearing in their timelines. This initiative comes as the service disclosed that it presently contains in excess of 1 bn AI videos.
Testing and Rollout
This change is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a full-scale rollout. This shift coincides with a surge in content created by AI, driven by recent AI video creators.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Studies have shown that nearly a tenth of the fastest-growing video streams on another major platform exclusively feature content made by AI. A large amount of this material is deemed “AI slop”, a label for substandard, mass-produced content that is typically absurd or bizarre.
Our research shows that a lot of users appreciate content made with AI tools, ranging from digital art to science explainers, and we intend to provide users the power to increase or decrease of that, depending on their own preferences,” said a company executive.
AI on the Platform
TikTok announced that there are presently over a billion videos on its network identified as AI-generated. Overall, in excess of 100 million media items are submitted to the app each day, making AI-generated material a limited percentage of its total content library.
Customizing Your Feed
Viewers will be able to decrease or raise the amount of AI content they see by accessing the content preference feature in the application and choosing the AI content topic. Additional categories that currently be controlled under the tool cover news, clothing, aesthetics, and choreography.
AI Disclosure Rules
The platform’s guidelines require content makers to identify “realistic” AI-generated content, and it bans harmful AI impersonations of celebrities or critical incidents. Any believable AI-generated clip that is not labeled can be deleted under its community policies.
Furthermore, the app will henceforth apply an “AI-made” tag to content produced via its built-in AI features, or flagged by an collaborative effort for recognizing content made by AI. This action is intended to stop users from trying to bypass the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
The company is also launching a two million dollar awareness program for professionals and groups to create educational content about responsible artificial intelligence. This initiative will support educational bodies focused on teaching computer science.
Moderation Strategy
The video-sharing app has justified its moderation strategy, following controversy over proposals to lay off numerous content moderators in the United Kingdom. TikTok is expected to reduce hundreds of positions in its user protection team in London, with labor groups and digital protection specialists voicing alarm that staff are being displaced by machine-led review.
A company official explained that human moderation would remain essential, but automated tools can shield workers by filtering out the most graphic content ahead of it is viewed by humans. TikTok reported a notable drop in shocking and graphic content reviewed by content reviewers over the previous year due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
We believe it is crucial to integrate staff and AI to maintain a secure environment,” the official commented. “We’ll have people as part of that process, but we further consider it’s highly necessary to reduce exposure to dangerous material as quickly as possible, which is the area in which a significant AI assistance is proving valuable process content quickly.”
