Users will soon have a new feature that enables them to lessen the quantity of artificial intelligence-produced media appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the company announced that it now features over 1 bn AI videos.
Pilot Phase and Launch
The update is in a pilot phase over the next few weeks before a global release. This shift aligns with a increase in AI content, fueled by new AI video creators.
AI Proliferation Online
Recent reports that almost one in 10 of the most rapidly expanding channels on a competing service only show clips produced artificially. A large amount of this output is deemed “AI slop”, a phrase for substandard, bulk-generated content that is often absurd or dreamlike.
Based on user feedback that many people like content produced via AI tools, ranging from digital art to informative clips, and we aim to provide users the option to see more or less of that, depending on their own likes,” said a spokesperson.
Volume and Proportions
TikTok disclosed that there are now 1.3bn videos on its service identified as made with AI. In total, more than 100 mn pieces of content are added to the service daily, making AI-generated material a relatively small percentage of its overall inventory.
User Control Features
Viewers will be in a position to limit or boost the amount of AI content they watch by accessing the topic control feature in the app and selecting the AI content topic. Additional categories that are already be adjusted under the setting encompass news, fashion, beauty, and choreography.
AI Disclosure Rules
TikTok’s policies mandate users to identify lifelike artificially created content, and it prohibits dangerous AI impersonations of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is unmarked can be taken down under its user guidelines.
In addition, the service will from now on apply an AI-generated tag to content produced via its own AI tools, or flagged by an cross-platform project for recognizing artificial media. This measure is aimed to help prevent users from attempting to circumvent the tagging system.
Responsible AI Funding
TikTok is also launching a two million dollar AI literacy fund for experts and organizations to produce learning resources about using AI responsibly. This project will benefit non-profit groups specializing in training programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has supported its safety measures, during debate over intentions to cut jobs for numerous safety staff in the UK. It is planning to eliminate hundreds of positions in its content moderation department in the UK capital, with trade unions and online safety experts voicing alarm that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.
A senior executive clarified that staff-based oversight would continue to be important, but AI can safeguard staff by filtering out the most harmful content before it has to be seen by people. TikTok reported a 76% decrease in shocking and graphic content seen by content reviewers over the last 12 months due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
It is vital to integrate people and machines to keep the platform safe,” she said. “We’ll have people as part of that process, but we additionally believe it’s extremely critical to limit contact with harmful content as quickly as possible, which is where a significant AI assistance is making a difference operate efficiently.”
