TikTok is introducing a new feature that enables them to lessen the volume of AI-created media appearing in their feeds. This move comes as the service disclosed that it presently contains more than 1 bn AI videos.
Pilot Phase and Launch
The update is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a global rollout. This development aligns with a surge in content created by AI, spurred by new content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that approximately one in 10 of the fastest-growing content creators on a competing service only show clips produced artificially. A considerable share of this material is deemed “AI slop”, a label for poor-quality, factory-style content that is often absurd or dreamlike.
Based on user feedback that numerous viewers enjoy content created using AI tools, ranging from digital art to educational videos, and we intend to provide users the power to increase or decrease of that, according to their own choices,” stated a platform representative.
AI on the Platform
TikTok announced that there are now over a billion videos on its network labeled as artificially created. Collectively, over 100 million videos are submitted to the platform each day, making AI content a limited part of its overall inventory.
How to Adjust Settings
Users will be in a position to limit or boost the volume of AI-generated videos they watch by opening the “manage topic” setting in the app and picking the AI content topic. Further subjects that can already be adjusted under the tool encompass politics, fashion, aesthetics, and choreography.
Content Labeling and Policies
Its guidelines require creators to label convincing AI-made content, and it bans harmful deepfakes of well-known individuals or emergencies. Any realistic artificial content that is unmarked can be deleted under its community policies.
Additionally, the service will from now on add an artificially created label to content produced via its own AI tools, or flagged by an collaborative effort for identifying artificial media. This measure is designed to help prevent users from seeking to evade the tagging system.
AI Literacy Programs
TikTok is furthermore launching a $2m awareness program for specialists and groups to create educational content about responsible artificial intelligence. This program will assist educational bodies specializing in teaching computer science.
Content Safety Approach
TikTok has defended its content review process, during discussion over proposals to make redundant numerous review team members in the UK. It is planning to eliminate a significant number of roles in its content moderation division in its British office, with labor groups and digital protection specialists expressing worry that people are being substituted by machine-led review.
A senior executive explained that staff-based oversight would remain essential, but AI can shield workers by removing the most graphic content prior to it has to be seen by humans. The platform stated a 76% decrease in disturbing and violent content handled by content reviewers over the past year due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
It is vital to integrate staff and AI to ensure user safety,” the executive stated. “We’ll have staff as involved in the system, but we additionally believe it’s very important to reduce exposure to harmful content as rapidly, which is the area in which a lot of the machine support is proving valuable work at speed.”
