The platform is rolling out a updated setting that allows them to reduce the quantity of AI-created media appearing in their feeds. This move comes as the company disclosed that it presently contains more than 1 thousand million content made with AI.
Pilot Phase and Launch
The new functionality is in a pilot phase over the coming weeks before a full-scale release. This shift aligns with a surge in AI content, driven by recent video-generation tools.
AI Proliferation Online
Recent reports that nearly a tenth of the quickest rising video streams on a competing service primarily display content made by AI. A considerable share of this content is considered “AI slop”, a phrase for poor-quality, mass-produced content that is often illogical or surreal.
Based on user feedback that a lot of users like content made with AI tools, including digital art to educational videos, and we intend to give people the power to adjust the amount of that, based on their own likes,” stated a platform representative.
AI on the Platform
The service disclosed that there are currently over a billion videos on its service tagged as artificially created. In total, over 100 mn videos are uploaded to the service each day, making AI content a minor percentage of its complete catalog.
User Control Features
Viewers will be capable of decrease or raise the amount of AI-generated videos they see by using the topic control feature in the platform and choosing “AI-generated content”. Further subjects that are already be adjusted under the filter include politics, style, beauty, and movement.
Content Labeling and Policies
Its rules mandate users to identify “realistic” AI-generated content, and it bans dangerous deepfakes of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any authentic-looking artificial content that is unmarked can be taken down under its community policies.
Additionally, the service will henceforth add an “AI-made” watermark to content produced via its proprietary AI systems, or flagged by an industry-wide initiative for recognizing AI-generated material. This measure is aimed to deter users from seeking to evade the disclosure requirement.
AI Literacy Programs
The platform is furthermore introducing a $2m AI literacy fund for professionals and groups to create learning resources about responsible artificial intelligence. This program will assist educational bodies focused on educating computer science.
Platform Protection
TikTok has defended its moderation strategy, amid debate over intentions to make redundant numerous review team members in the UK. TikTok is planning to reduce a significant number of roles in its trust and safety team in the UK capital, with worker representatives and online safety experts expressing worry that staff are being displaced by automated systems.
A trust and safety lead explained that human moderation would remain essential, but AI can safeguard staff by eliminating the most graphic content prior to it gets reviewed by humans. The platform announced a notable drop in shocking and graphic content seen by safety staff over the past year due to reliance on its automated systems.
“We think that it’s essential to combine staff and AI to keep the platform safe,” she said. “We’ll have staff as involved in the system, but we also think it’s extremely critical to limit contact with unsafe media as quickly as possible, which is why a lot of the machine support is proving valuable process content quickly.”
