Users will soon have a updated setting that allows them to lessen the amount of AI-made content appearing in their feeds. This step comes as the service announced that it currently hosts more than 1 thousand million AI videos.
Trial and Implementation
The update is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a full-scale rollout. This advancement aligns with a increase in AI-generated material, spurred by emerging video-generation tools.
The Broader AI Trend
Recent reports that almost one in 10 of the most rapidly expanding channels on a competing service exclusively feature AI-generated videos. A large amount of this content is classified as low-quality AI content, a phrase for poor-quality, bulk-generated content that is typically illogical or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that a lot of users enjoy content created using AI tools, from digital art to informative clips, and we intend to give people the option to adjust the amount of that, depending on their own likes,” commented a spokesperson.
AI on the Platform
The platform disclosed that there are currently 1.3 billion videos on its service labeled as made with AI. Overall, over 100 m videos are added to the service each day, making AI-generated material a limited percentage of its total content library.
Customizing Your Feed
Users will be capable of decrease or raise the level of AI content they view by using the topic control setting in the app and picking AI-made media. Other topics that currently be controlled under the tool include news, clothing, aesthetics, and choreography.
Content Labeling and Policies
TikTok’s policies require creators to identify “realistic” artificially created content, and it forbids dangerous AI impersonations of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any realistic AI video that is not labeled can be deleted under its community policies.
Additionally, the service will henceforth add an “AI-made” watermark to content made using its own AI tools, or identified by an cross-platform project for identifying AI-generated material. This step is designed to deter users from seeking to bypass the labeling process.
AI Literacy Programs
The company is furthermore introducing a two million dollar awareness program for specialists and organizations to develop informative material about ethical AI use. This initiative will support non-profit groups dedicated to educating computer science.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has justified its safety measures, amid controversy over plans to make redundant a large number of content moderators in the UK. TikTok is expected to cut a significant number of roles in its content moderation department in the UK capital, with worker representatives and online safety experts expressing worry that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.
A senior executive stated that staff-based oversight would remain essential, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by removing the most distressing content before it has to be seen by staff. The company stated a notable drop in shocking and graphic content seen by safety staff over the past year due to reliance on its machine learning processes.
“We think that it’s essential to integrate people and machines to maintain a secure environment,” the official commented. “We’ll have staff as part of that process, but we additionally believe it’s extremely critical to limit contact with dangerous material as rapidly, which is where a significant AI assistance is proving valuable operate efficiently.”
