TikTok is introducing a updated setting that permits them to cut down on the quantity of artificial intelligence-produced videos appearing in their streams. This step comes as the company revealed that it presently contains more than 1 thousand million content made with AI.
Testing and Rollout
This change is being tested over the following weeks before a full-scale rollout. This development coincides with a rise in AI-generated material, driven by new AI video creators.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Studies have shown that nearly one in 10 of the most rapidly expanding content creators on a competing service only show content made by AI. A considerable share of this content is deemed “AI slop”, a term for substandard, factory-style content that is typically absurd or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that many people enjoy content created using AI tools, including computer-generated images to educational videos, and we intend to provide users the power to adjust the amount of that, depending on their own choices,” commented a spokesperson.
AI on the Platform
The service announced that there are currently over a billion videos on its app identified as made with AI. In total, more than 100 million pieces of content are added to the service daily, making AI-generated material a relatively small percentage of its total content library.
User Control Features
Members will be able to decrease or raise the amount of AI content they view by opening the “manage topic” feature in the app and picking the AI content topic. Additional categories that currently be modified under the tool encompass politics, clothing, cosmetics, and movement.
AI Disclosure Rules
Its policies mandate content makers to label “realistic” AI-generated content, and it forbids dangerous deepfakes of public figures or critical incidents. Any authentic-looking AI-generated clip that is not labeled can be deleted under its user guidelines.
Furthermore, the platform will from now on apply an “AI-made” tag to content made using its own AI tools, or flagged by an collaborative effort for identifying content made by AI. This step is designed to help prevent users from seeking to bypass the labeling process.
Responsible AI Funding
TikTok is additionally launching a $2 million AI literacy fund for specialists and organizations to produce educational content about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will assist charitable organizations focused on training computer science.
Content Safety Approach
The video-sharing app has defended its moderation strategy, following debate over plans to lay off a large number of content moderators in the UK. It is planning to reduce hundreds of positions in its user protection team in London, with labor groups and online safety experts voicing alarm that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.
A company official clarified that human moderation would remain essential, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by eliminating the most harmful content prior to it is viewed by staff. The company announced a 76% decrease in shocking and graphic content handled by safety staff over the previous year due to intervention by its automated systems.
It is vital to balance people and machines to keep the platform safe,” the official commented. “We’ll have humans as involved in the system, but we also think it’s very important to limit contact with dangerous material as quickly as possible, which is where a significant AI assistance is really helping us work at speed.”
