The platform is rolling out a new feature that allows them to lessen the volume of artificial intelligence-produced videos appearing in their timelines. This step comes as the service announced that it currently hosts more than 1 billion AI-generated clips.
Testing and Rollout
This change is in a pilot phase over the coming weeks before a widespread rollout. This development coincides with a increase in content created by AI, spurred by new content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Studies have shown that nearly a tenth of the quickest rising content creators on a competing service only show clips produced artificially. A large amount of this material is considered “AI slop”, a label for substandard, bulk-generated content that is frequently absurd or bizarre.
“We know from our community that a lot of users like content created using AI tools, from AI artwork to science explainers, and we want to give people the option to increase or decrease of that, according to their own preferences,” said a spokesperson.
AI on the Platform
TikTok disclosed that there are now 1.3 billion videos on its app identified as made with AI. Overall, over 100 million videos are added to the platform every day, making clips made by AI a limited portion of its total content library.
How to Adjust Settings
Viewers will be in a position to limit or boost the amount of artificial media they view by opening the topic control option in the app and selecting AI-made media. Other topics that can already be modified under the filter cover politics, style, aesthetics, and movement.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s policies oblige creators to tag lifelike artificially created content, and it bans harmful fake videos of public figures or crisis events. Any believable artificial content that is not labeled can be taken down under its user guidelines.
Furthermore, the platform will from now on attach an “AI-made” label to content made using its own AI tools, or detected by an cross-platform project for spotting AI-generated material. This action is aimed to stop users from seeking to bypass the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
The company is also introducing a $2m AI literacy fund for specialists and organizations to produce educational content about using AI responsibly. This program will assist non-profit groups dedicated to teaching programming and robotics.
Moderation Strategy
TikTok has supported its content review process, during controversy over proposals to cut jobs for a large number of safety staff in the UK. The company is expected to eliminate 439 jobs in its trust and safety division in its British office, with labor groups and internet security professionals expressing worry that staff are being displaced by machine-led review.
A senior executive stated that human moderation would remain essential, but AI can protect employees by removing the most harmful content ahead of it has to be seen by humans. The platform announced a significant reduction in explicit and harmful content reviewed by content reviewers over the last 12 months due to the use of its machine learning processes.
We believe it is crucial to combine humans and technology to maintain a secure environment,” the executive stated. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s extremely critical to limit contact with unsafe media as rapidly, which is why a extensive automated help is really helping us process content quickly.”
