Users will soon have a new feature that enables them to reduce the quantity of AI-made videos appearing in their streams. This move comes as the company disclosed that it now features more than 1 billion content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
The update is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a global release. This shift comes amid a rise in AI content, spurred by emerging content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Studies have shown that nearly one in 10 of the most rapidly expanding content creators on a popular video site primarily display clips produced artificially. A significant portion of this material is deemed mass-produced AI material, a label for inferior, mass-produced content that is often illogical or surreal.
“We know from our community that many people like content made with AI tools, from digital art to science explainers, and we intend to offer the community the power to increase or decrease of that, depending on their own preferences,” said a platform representative.
Volume and Proportions
The service disclosed that there are now over a billion videos on its app identified as made with AI. Overall, more than 100 million pieces of content are submitted to the platform each day, making AI-generated material a relatively small part of its overall inventory.
Customizing Your Feed
Members will be able to decrease or raise the amount of AI content they see by opening the “manage topic” feature in the application and picking the AI content topic. Additional categories that are already be modified under the tool cover current affairs, fashion, cosmetics, and movement.
AI Disclosure Rules
The platform’s guidelines mandate content makers to tag convincing artificially created content, and it bans harmful deepfakes of well-known individuals or critical incidents. Any authentic-looking AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be deleted under its terms of service.
Additionally, the app will from now on add an “AI-made” tag to content made using its built-in AI features, or detected by an industry-wide initiative for spotting artificial media. This measure is aimed to help prevent users from trying to bypass the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
TikTok is also establishing a two million dollar awareness program for professionals and groups to produce educational content about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will benefit non-profit groups dedicated to teaching programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has defended its moderation strategy, amid debate over intentions to make redundant hundreds of safety staff in the United Kingdom. The company is planning to cut hundreds of positions in its content moderation department in London, with worker representatives and internet security professionals expressing worry that people are being substituted by machine-led review.
A company official explained that staff-based oversight would continue to be important, but artificial intelligence can protect employees by eliminating the most graphic content before it gets reviewed by people. The platform reported a notable drop in disturbing and violent content handled by safety staff over the previous year due to the use of its machine learning processes.
It is vital to combine staff and AI to keep the platform safe,” the executive stated. “We’ll have staff as involved in the system, but we also think it’s very important to limit contact with dangerous material as rapidly, which is why a extensive automated help is proving valuable work at speed.”
