TikTok is introducing a new feature that permits them to lessen the quantity of AI-made content appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the company disclosed that it presently contains in excess of 1 billion content made with AI.
Testing and Rollout
The update is being tested over the coming weeks before a full-scale rollout. This advancement aligns with a rise in content created by AI, fueled by new content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that almost 10% of the most rapidly expanding channels on a competing service only show content made by AI. A considerable share of this content is classified as “AI slop”, a term for substandard, mass-produced content that is often nonsensical or surreal.
“We know from our community that numerous viewers enjoy content produced via AI tools, ranging from digital art to science explainers, and we intend to offer the community the option to see more or less of that, based on their own preferences,” stated a company executive.
Volume and Proportions
TikTok shared that there are currently 1.3bn videos on its network identified as made with AI. Collectively, in excess of 100 million media items are added to the app each day, making clips made by AI a limited percentage of its total content library.
How to Adjust Settings
Users will be in a position to limit or boost the volume of AI content they watch by accessing the “manage topic” option in the platform and picking the AI content topic. Further subjects that can already be adjusted under the setting encompass news, style, aesthetics, and dance.
Platform Guidelines
Its rules require users to tag convincing AI-made content, and it prohibits harmful fake videos of public figures or emergencies. Any believable AI-generated clip that is not labeled can be removed under its community policies.
In addition, the platform will now attach an artificially created label to content created with its built-in AI features, or flagged by an cross-platform project for recognizing artificial media. This step is intended to deter users from seeking to bypass the disclosure requirement.
AI Literacy Programs
The platform is also introducing a $2 million awareness program for professionals and groups to produce educational content about ethical AI use. This program will assist non-profit groups focused on educating coding and technology.
Content Safety Approach
The video-sharing app has defended its content review process, following discussion over plans to make redundant a large number of review team members in Britain. It is expected to reduce a significant number of roles in its trust and safety team in the UK capital, with labor groups and online safety experts voicing alarm that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.
A trust and safety lead explained that staff-based oversight would remain essential, but artificial intelligence can safeguard staff by eliminating the most distressing content ahead of it is viewed by staff. TikTok announced a 76% decrease in shocking and graphic content seen by content reviewers over the previous year due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
We believe it is crucial to integrate people and machines to ensure user safety,” the executive stated. “We’ll have staff as involved in the system, but we also think it’s very important to limit contact with unsafe media as rapidly, which is why a significant AI assistance is making a difference work at speed.”
