Users will soon have a new feature that allows them to cut down on the volume of AI-made media appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the company announced that it presently contains more than 1 thousand million content made with AI.
Pilot Phase and Launch
The new functionality is being tested over the coming weeks before a global rollout. This shift comes amid a rise in AI content, driven by recent video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Studies have shown that almost 10% of the quickest rising content creators on a competing service exclusively feature content made by AI. A large amount of this content is deemed “AI slop”, a term for poor-quality, bulk-generated content that is often absurd or bizarre.
“We know from our community that many people enjoy content produced via AI tools, including digital art to informative clips, and we intend to give people the option to adjust the amount of that, according to their own likes,” said a spokesperson.
Scale of AI Content
TikTok disclosed that there are presently 1.3bn videos on its service labeled as made with AI. Overall, in excess of 100 mn pieces of content are added to the service each day, making AI-generated material a relatively small part of its overall inventory.
Customizing Your Feed
Viewers will be capable of reduce or increase the level of artificial media they view by accessing the content preference feature in the application and selecting AI-made media. Further subjects that are already be controlled under the tool cover current affairs, style, aesthetics, and choreography.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s policies mandate users to label convincing AI-made content, and it prohibits harmful AI impersonations of celebrities or emergencies. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is unmarked can be deleted under its terms of service.
Additionally, the service will now apply an “AI-made” tag to content created with its proprietary AI systems, or flagged by an industry-wide initiative for spotting artificial media. This action is aimed to stop users from seeking to circumvent the tagging system.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is furthermore launching a two million dollar educational fund for specialists and groups to develop educational content about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will benefit charitable organizations focused on educating computer science.
Platform Protection
The platform has justified its safety measures, following controversy over proposals to lay off hundreds of safety staff in Britain. The company is set to eliminate a significant number of roles in its trust and safety team in London, with labor groups and online safety experts expressing worry that humans are being replaced by AI moderation.
A company official clarified that people-led review would remain essential, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by eliminating the most graphic content before it gets reviewed by people. TikTok announced a notable drop in disturbing and violent content reviewed by human moderators over the previous year due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
It is vital to integrate staff and AI to ensure user safety,” the official commented. “We’ll have staff as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s extremely critical to reduce exposure to harmful content as swiftly, which is why a extensive automated help is making a difference process content quickly.”
