TikTok is introducing a new feature that enables them to reduce the quantity of artificial intelligence-produced videos appearing in their streams. This move comes as the platform revealed that it currently hosts in excess of 1 billion AI-generated clips.
Trial and Implementation
This change is being tested over the following weeks before a full-scale release. This development coincides with a increase in AI-generated material, fueled by emerging video-generation tools.
AI Proliferation Online
It has been noted that nearly one in 10 of the quickest rising video streams on a popular video site exclusively feature AI-generated videos. A considerable share of this content is deemed “AI slop”, a label for poor-quality, factory-style content that is frequently nonsensical or surreal.
Our research shows that a lot of users enjoy content made with AI tools, from computer-generated images to informative clips, and we aim to offer the community the power to increase or decrease of that, according to their own preferences,” stated a platform representative.
AI on the Platform
TikTok announced that there are now 1.3bn videos on its service tagged as made with AI. Collectively, more than 100 m videos are uploaded to the app each day, making clips made by AI a minor portion of its total content library.
Customizing Your Feed
Users will be capable of reduce or increase the volume of AI-generated videos they watch by accessing the content preference option in the application and picking AI-made media. Additional categories that are already be adjusted under the filter cover politics, fashion, cosmetics, and movement.
Platform Guidelines
Its rules require content makers to label “realistic” artificially created content, and it bans dangerous fake videos of well-known individuals or critical incidents. Any believable artificial content that is without a tag can be taken down under its community policies.
In addition, the service will from now on add an AI-generated tag to content created with its own AI tools, or detected by an cross-platform project for recognizing content made by AI. This step is aimed to stop users from attempting to evade the disclosure requirement.
AI Literacy Programs
TikTok is furthermore introducing a $2 million educational fund for experts and institutions to produce informative material about ethical AI use. This program will assist non-profit groups focused on training computer science.
Moderation Strategy
The platform has defended its safety measures, during discussion over proposals to make redundant hundreds of safety staff in the UK. It is planning to reduce a significant number of roles in its trust and safety team in London, with worker representatives and digital protection specialists voicing alarm that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.
A senior executive explained that people-led review would still have a role, but AI can protect employees by eliminating the most graphic content before it is viewed by humans. The company announced a significant reduction in explicit and harmful content seen by safety staff over the previous year due to the use of its AI tools.
It is vital to balance humans and technology to ensure user safety,” the executive stated. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we also think it’s extremely critical to reduce exposure to harmful content as swiftly, which is where a lot of the machine support is really helping us operate efficiently.”
