Users will soon have a updated setting that enables them to cut down on the amount of artificial intelligence-produced content appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the service disclosed that it presently contains over 1 bn AI videos.
Trial and Implementation
The update is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a global launch. This shift aligns with a increase in AI content, driven by emerging AI video creators.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that nearly a tenth of the quickest rising video streams on a popular video site primarily display AI-generated videos. A significant portion of this content is considered “AI slop”, a phrase for inferior, mass-produced content that is typically absurd or surreal.
Our research shows that numerous viewers like content produced via AI tools, from computer-generated images to educational videos, and we intend to give people the ability to adjust the amount of that, based on their own choices,” stated a company executive.
Scale of AI Content
TikTok announced that there are now over a billion videos on its app identified as made with AI. Collectively, over 100 m pieces of content are uploaded to the app every day, making clips made by AI a minor percentage of its total content library.
Customizing Your Feed
Users will be in a position to limit or boost the volume of AI content they watch by opening the content preference option in the platform and picking the AI content topic. Other topics that can already be adjusted under the tool cover politics, style, beauty, and choreography.
AI Disclosure Rules
The platform’s rules mandate creators to label convincing AI-made content, and it bans dangerous fake videos of public figures or critical incidents. Any realistic artificial content that is unmarked can be taken down under its community policies.
Additionally, the service will henceforth attach an AI-generated label to content created with its proprietary AI systems, or identified by an collaborative effort for spotting content made by AI. This action is aimed to help prevent users from trying to circumvent the disclosure requirement.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is furthermore introducing a $2m educational fund for experts and institutions to create informative material about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will assist non-profit groups dedicated to educating computer science.
Moderation Strategy
The video-sharing app has justified its safety measures, following debate over intentions to make redundant numerous review team members in the UK. The company is set to reduce 439 jobs in its trust and safety division in its British office, with trade unions and digital protection specialists voicing alarm that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.
A senior executive stated that people-led review would continue to be important, but automated tools can safeguard staff by removing the most harmful content before it gets reviewed by staff. TikTok reported a notable drop in disturbing and violent content reviewed by human moderators over the past year due to reliance on its automated systems.
We believe it is crucial to integrate staff and AI to keep the platform safe,” the executive stated. “We’ll have humans as part of that process, but we further consider it’s very important to reduce exposure to harmful content as rapidly, which is why a extensive automated help is really helping us process content quickly.”
