Users will soon have a new feature that enables them to lessen the volume of AI-created media appearing in their feeds. This initiative comes as the platform disclosed that it presently contains more than 1 billion AI videos.
Pilot Phase and Launch
The new functionality is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a global launch. This development coincides with a increase in AI-generated material, fueled by emerging AI video creators.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that almost one in 10 of the most rapidly expanding content creators on another major platform only show clips produced artificially. A significant portion of this material is classified as mass-produced AI material, a term for substandard, factory-style content that is typically nonsensical or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that a lot of users like content created using AI tools, ranging from digital art to informative clips, and we aim to give people the power to adjust the amount of that, depending on their own likes,” commented a platform representative.
Scale of AI Content
TikTok disclosed that there are now 1.3 billion videos on its app labeled as artificially created. Collectively, over 100 m videos are uploaded to the service every day, making AI content a limited percentage of its complete catalog.
Customizing Your Feed
Users will be able to reduce or increase the volume of AI content they watch by opening the content preference setting in the app and selecting “AI-generated content”. Further subjects that currently be controlled under the tool cover current affairs, style, cosmetics, and choreography.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s guidelines oblige content makers to identify “realistic” artificially created content, and it bans harmful fake videos of well-known individuals or critical incidents. Any realistic AI video that is unmarked can be deleted under its community policies.
In addition, the service will henceforth add an artificially created tag to content made using its proprietary AI systems, or flagged by an cross-platform project for recognizing AI-generated material. This measure is designed to stop users from seeking to evade the tagging system.
Responsible AI Funding
The platform is also introducing a $2 million AI literacy fund for experts and groups to develop educational content about using AI responsibly. This program will assist educational bodies dedicated to teaching computer science.
Moderation Strategy
The video-sharing app has supported its safety measures, during discussion over proposals to make redundant numerous review team members in the UK. It is expected to eliminate hundreds of positions in its content moderation team in its British office, with labor groups and internet security professionals expressing worry that humans are being replaced by automated systems.
A company official clarified that people-led review would remain essential, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by eliminating the most graphic content ahead of it gets reviewed by humans. TikTok reported a 76% decrease in shocking and graphic content handled by human moderators over the past year due to the use of its AI tools.
“We think that it’s essential to integrate staff and AI to ensure user safety,” she said. “We’ll have people as integral to the approach, but we also think it’s highly necessary to minimize viewing of unsafe media as rapidly, which is where a extensive automated help is making a difference work at speed.”
