Users will soon have a new feature that permits them to reduce the quantity of AI-made content appearing in their timelines. This step comes as the company disclosed that it presently contains more than 1 bn content made with AI.
Testing and Rollout
This change is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a widespread rollout. This advancement coincides with a surge in AI-generated material, driven by recent video-generation tools.
The Broader AI Trend
It has been noted that approximately a tenth of the most rapidly expanding channels on a popular video site exclusively feature clips produced artificially. A large amount of this content is considered low-quality AI content, a phrase for substandard, mass-produced content that is typically illogical or bizarre.
“We know from our community that many people enjoy content created using AI tools, ranging from computer-generated images to science explainers, and we want to give people the power to increase or decrease of that, based on their own preferences,” stated a spokesperson.
Volume and Proportions
The service shared that there are now 1.3bn videos on its app tagged as made with AI. Overall, in excess of 100 million videos are added to the service each day, making AI content a limited part of its total content library.
How to Adjust Settings
Users will be capable of limit or boost the volume of AI content they view by using the topic control setting in the application and choosing AI-made media. Other topics that are already be controlled under the tool include current affairs, clothing, aesthetics, and choreography.
Platform Guidelines
TikTok’s guidelines mandate users to tag convincing AI-made content, and it prohibits harmful AI impersonations of public figures or critical incidents. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is not labeled can be deleted under its terms of service.
Furthermore, the app will now attach an artificially created watermark to content produced via its own AI tools, or detected by an cross-platform project for recognizing content made by AI. This measure is aimed to help prevent users from seeking to circumvent the labeling process.
Educational Initiatives
The company is furthermore introducing a two million dollar educational fund for professionals and groups to create informative material about responsible artificial intelligence. This initiative will support educational bodies focused on educating computer science.
Platform Protection
The platform has defended its content review process, amid controversy over plans to cut jobs for a large number of content moderators in Britain. The company is set to cut a significant number of roles in its content moderation team in the UK capital, with worker representatives and online safety experts raising concerns that people are being substituted by automated systems.
A company official stated that staff-based oversight would still have a role, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by removing the most distressing content before it has to be seen by staff. The platform announced a notable drop in explicit and harmful content reviewed by human moderators over the previous year due to the use of its AI tools.
It is vital to combine 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 very important to minimize viewing of harmful content as quickly as possible, which is the area in which a lot of the machine support is proving valuable process content quickly.”
