Users will soon have a updated setting that allows them to reduce the amount of AI-made videos appearing in their timelines. This move comes as the company revealed that it presently contains more than 1 billion content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
The update is undergoing trials over the next few weeks before a full-scale launch. This development comes amid a rise in content created by AI, spurred by recent content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Studies have shown that approximately a tenth of the quickest rising channels on a popular video site primarily display AI-generated videos. A significant portion of this material is deemed low-quality AI content, a phrase for inferior, factory-style content that is often absurd or surreal.
“We know from our community that a lot of users enjoy content created using AI tools, ranging from digital art to educational videos, and we want to offer the community the power to adjust the amount of that, depending on their own likes,” commented a spokesperson.
AI on the Platform
The service announced that there are now over a billion videos on its network identified as artificially created. Overall, in excess of 100 million media items are uploaded to the service every day, making clips made by AI a relatively small percentage of its complete catalog.
Customizing Your Feed
Members will be in a position to limit or boost the volume of AI-generated videos they see by using the content preference option in the app and choosing the AI content topic. Further subjects that currently be controlled under the setting include politics, clothing, beauty, and dance.
Content Labeling and Policies
TikTok’s rules require users to identify lifelike AI-made content, and it prohibits dangerous fake videos of well-known individuals or emergencies. Any realistic AI video that is not labeled can be removed under its terms of service.
Furthermore, the platform will from now on apply an AI-generated watermark to content made using its own AI tools, or identified by an collaborative effort for spotting content made by AI. This action is intended to stop users from seeking to bypass the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
TikTok is also introducing a two million dollar educational fund for specialists and groups to produce learning resources about ethical AI use. This program will assist charitable organizations specializing in teaching programming and robotics.
Moderation Strategy
The video-sharing app has defended its content review process, amid discussion over proposals to cut jobs for hundreds of review team members in the United Kingdom. It is expected to eliminate hundreds of positions in its user protection division in the UK capital, with worker representatives and online safety experts voicing alarm that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.
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 graphic content before it gets reviewed by humans. The company reported a notable drop in shocking and graphic content seen by safety staff over the past year due to intervention by its AI tools.
“We think that it’s essential to combine humans and technology to keep the platform safe,” the executive stated. “We’ll have people as integral to the approach, but we also think it’s extremely critical to reduce exposure to harmful content as quickly as possible, which is the area in which a extensive automated help is making a difference process content quickly.”
