TikTok is introducing a fresh option that permits them to reduce the volume of AI-created content appearing in their streams. This move comes as the service revealed that it now features over 1 thousand million content made with AI.
Testing and Rollout
The update is in a pilot phase over the coming weeks before a global release. This advancement comes amid a increase in AI content, driven by recent content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that almost one in 10 of the quickest rising channels on a popular video site exclusively feature content made by AI. A significant portion of this content is classified as “AI slop”, a phrase for poor-quality, factory-style content that is frequently illogical or bizarre.
Our research shows that many people like content created using AI tools, including digital art to informative clips, and we intend to give people the ability to see more or less of that, according to their own preferences,” stated a company executive.
Scale of AI Content
TikTok announced that there are currently 1.3bn videos on its app tagged as made with AI. Overall, in excess of 100 million media items are added to the app every day, making AI-generated material a limited percentage of its overall inventory.
Customizing Your Feed
Users will be in a position to limit or boost the amount of AI content they view by opening the topic control feature in the app and selecting “AI-generated content”. Further subjects that are already be modified under the setting include current affairs, clothing, aesthetics, and movement.
Platform Guidelines
Its rules mandate users to label “realistic” artificially created content, and it prohibits malicious AI impersonations of celebrities or crisis events. Any believable AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be removed under its community policies.
Additionally, the service will from now on apply an “AI-made” label to content created with its built-in AI features, or flagged by an cross-platform project for spotting artificial media. This action is intended to stop users from seeking to evade the tagging system.
AI Literacy Programs
The platform is also launching a $2m educational fund for experts and groups to create informative material about using AI responsibly. This project will benefit charitable organizations specializing in teaching programming and robotics.
Moderation Strategy
The video-sharing app has defended its content review process, during debate over proposals to lay off hundreds of safety staff in Britain. TikTok is planning to eliminate 439 jobs in its content moderation team in the UK capital, with trade unions and internet security professionals raising concerns that humans are being replaced by AI moderation.
A company official explained that people-led review would still have a role, but AI can protect employees by filtering out the most harmful content before it is viewed by staff. The company reported a notable drop in disturbing and violent content handled by safety staff over the previous year due to the use of its AI tools.
We believe it is crucial to integrate staff and AI to maintain a secure environment,” the executive stated. “We’ll have people as part of that process, but we additionally believe it’s very important to minimize viewing of unsafe media as rapidly, which is why a extensive automated help is really helping us process content quickly.”
