Users will soon have a updated setting that permits them to lessen the quantity of AI-created media appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the company disclosed that it presently contains over 1 thousand million AI videos.
Testing and Rollout
The update is being tested over the following weeks before a widespread release. This shift comes amid a surge in AI content, fueled by new AI video creators.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that almost one in 10 of the fastest-growing content creators on a competing service primarily display AI-generated videos. A large amount of this output is classified as low-quality AI content, a label for inferior, mass-produced content that is frequently absurd or surreal.
Our research shows that a lot of users enjoy content produced via AI tools, ranging from computer-generated images to informative clips, and we want to give people the option to increase or decrease of that, based on their own likes,” said a platform representative.
AI on the Platform
The platform shared that there are now over a billion videos on its app labeled as made with AI. In total, more than 100 million pieces of content are uploaded to the app daily, making clips made by AI a relatively small percentage of its complete catalog.
Customizing Your Feed
Users will be capable of reduce or increase the level of artificial media they watch by opening the topic control option in the platform and selecting the AI content topic. Additional categories that are already be modified under the setting cover politics, fashion, cosmetics, and choreography.
Platform Guidelines
Its guidelines mandate content makers to label convincing artificially created content, and it prohibits malicious fake videos of celebrities or crisis events. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is unmarked can be removed under its user guidelines.
Additionally, the platform will henceforth add an “AI-made” label to content made using its built-in AI features, or detected by an collaborative effort for spotting content made by AI. This step is intended to deter users from attempting to circumvent the disclosure requirement.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is also launching a $2 million AI literacy fund for professionals and organizations to create learning resources about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will support non-profit groups focused on educating coding and technology.
Moderation Strategy
TikTok has defended its safety measures, amid discussion over intentions to cut jobs for a large number of safety staff in the United Kingdom. The company is expected to eliminate a significant number of roles in its trust and safety department in its British office, with labor groups and digital protection specialists raising concerns that humans are being replaced by machine-led review.
A trust and safety lead explained that people-led review would continue to be important, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by filtering out the most harmful content before it has to be seen by people. The platform announced a notable drop in shocking and graphic content handled by content reviewers over the past year due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
We believe it is crucial to combine humans and technology to maintain a secure environment,” the official commented. “We’ll have people as integral to the approach, but we further consider it’s extremely critical to reduce exposure to unsafe media as swiftly, which is where a significant AI assistance is really helping us work at speed.”