The platform is rolling out a updated setting that enables them to reduce the volume of AI-made content appearing in their streams. This step comes as the service revealed that it now features more than 1 billion content made with AI.
Pilot Phase and Launch
This change is being tested over the coming weeks before a global rollout. This development comes amid a surge in AI-generated material, driven by new content generation software.
AI Proliferation Online
Recent reports that nearly a tenth of the fastest-growing video streams on a popular video site only show content made by AI. A considerable share of this output is classified as “AI slop”, a term for inferior, factory-style content that is often absurd or surreal.
Based on user feedback that a lot of users appreciate content created using AI tools, ranging from AI artwork to informative clips, and we intend to provide users the option to increase or decrease of that, depending on their own likes,” said a spokesperson.
Volume and Proportions
TikTok disclosed that there are currently 1.3bn videos on its service identified as made with AI. Collectively, in excess of 100 million videos are uploaded to the app daily, making AI content a minor percentage of its complete catalog.
User Control Features
Users will be in a position to reduce or increase the amount of artificial media they view by opening the topic control setting in the platform and picking “AI-generated content”. Additional categories that are already be adjusted under the setting cover news, clothing, cosmetics, and dance.
Platform Guidelines
TikTok’s guidelines oblige content makers to label “realistic” artificially created content, and it prohibits malicious fake videos of celebrities or crisis events. Any believable artificial content that is without a tag can be taken down under its terms of service.
Furthermore, the platform will henceforth attach an “AI-made” tag to content produced via its proprietary AI systems, or flagged by an collaborative effort for identifying AI-generated material. This step is designed to help prevent users from trying to bypass the tagging system.
AI Literacy Programs
The platform is additionally introducing a $2m awareness program for experts and groups to create informative material about using AI responsibly. This project will support educational bodies specializing in training computer science.
Platform Protection
TikTok has justified its content review process, amid discussion over plans to cut jobs for a large number of content moderators in the United Kingdom. The company is set to eliminate hundreds of positions in its trust and safety team in London, with labor groups and internet security professionals expressing worry that people are being substituted by automated systems.
A company official explained that staff-based oversight would continue to be important, but automated tools can safeguard staff by removing the most graphic content before it is viewed by staff. The company reported a notable drop in explicit and harmful content reviewed by safety staff over the previous year due to reliance on its machine learning processes.
“We think that it’s essential to integrate staff and AI to ensure user safety,” the executive stated. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we also think it’s highly necessary to limit contact with dangerous material as quickly as possible, which is why a extensive automated help is proving valuable work at speed.”
