Users will soon have a fresh option that allows them to lessen the amount of artificial intelligence-produced media appearing in their streams. This move comes as the platform announced that it now features over 1 bn AI videos.
Testing and Rollout
The update is undergoing trials over the next few weeks before a global rollout. This development comes amid a rise in AI content, driven by recent content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that almost one in 10 of the fastest-growing channels on another major platform exclusively feature AI-generated videos. A large amount of this output is considered low-quality AI content, a phrase for poor-quality, mass-produced content that is typically absurd or bizarre.
Based on user feedback that numerous viewers appreciate content made with AI tools, including digital art to informative clips, and we want to give people the option to increase or decrease of that, based on their own choices,” commented a company executive.
Scale of AI Content
The service shared that there are now 1.3 billion videos on its app labeled as AI-generated. Overall, over 100 m media items are submitted to the service each day, making clips made by AI a relatively small portion of its total content library.
User Control Features
Viewers will be capable of reduce or increase the amount of AI content they watch by using the “manage topic” setting in the app and picking the AI content topic. Other topics that can already be adjusted under the setting encompass current affairs, fashion, aesthetics, and movement.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s rules mandate content makers to identify lifelike artificially created content, and it prohibits dangerous fake videos of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any realistic AI video that is unmarked can be removed under its community policies.
Additionally, the app will now attach an “AI-made” tag to content produced via its own AI tools, or identified by an cross-platform project for recognizing artificial media. This step is aimed to stop users from trying to circumvent the tagging system.
Responsible AI Funding
The platform is furthermore introducing a $2 million awareness program for specialists and organizations to produce educational content about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will benefit non-profit groups dedicated to teaching computer science.
Moderation Strategy
TikTok has justified its safety measures, during debate over proposals to cut jobs for hundreds of safety staff in the United Kingdom. TikTok is expected to reduce hundreds of positions in its content moderation division in London, with labor groups and digital protection specialists raising concerns that people are being substituted by automated systems.
A trust and safety lead explained that people-led review would continue to be important, but artificial intelligence can protect employees by filtering out the most distressing content ahead of it is viewed by humans. TikTok stated a significant reduction in shocking and graphic content handled by human moderators over the previous year due to the use of its automated systems.
It is vital to balance humans and technology to maintain a secure environment,” the executive stated. “We’ll have staff as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s very important to limit contact with dangerous material as rapidly, which is why a extensive automated help is really helping us operate efficiently.”
