TikTok is introducing a updated setting that allows them to reduce the amount of artificial intelligence-produced videos appearing in their feeds. This step comes as the company disclosed that it currently hosts more than 1 thousand million content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
This change is in a pilot phase over the next few weeks before a full-scale launch. This development coincides with a rise in content created by AI, fueled by new content generation software.
AI Proliferation Online
Studies have shown that approximately 10% of the quickest rising video streams on a competing service primarily display content made by AI. A significant portion of this output is classified as “AI slop”, a term for poor-quality, factory-style content that is frequently absurd or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that a lot of users like content created using AI tools, from computer-generated images to informative clips, and we want to offer the community the option to increase or decrease of that, based on their own preferences,” commented a spokesperson.
Scale of AI Content
The platform shared that there are now over a billion videos on its app identified as artificially created. Overall, over 100 m pieces of content are added to the service daily, making AI content a limited part of its complete catalog.
How to Adjust Settings
Members will be in a position to limit or boost the level of AI-generated videos they watch by using the content preference feature in the app and selecting the AI content topic. Further subjects that currently be adjusted under the filter encompass news, style, aesthetics, and dance.
Platform Guidelines
Its policies oblige users to tag lifelike AI-made content, and it bans harmful AI impersonations of well-known individuals or critical incidents. Any authentic-looking artificial content that is without a tag can be removed under its community policies.
Furthermore, the service will from now on attach an artificially created tag to content made using its own AI tools, or flagged by an cross-platform project for identifying AI-generated material. This action is aimed to help prevent users from seeking to evade the tagging system.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is additionally introducing a $2 million AI literacy fund for professionals and institutions to produce learning resources about ethical AI use. This initiative will support non-profit groups dedicated to teaching programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
The platform has justified its safety measures, amid discussion over plans to lay off a large number of review team members in the United Kingdom. TikTok is expected to eliminate 439 jobs in its trust and safety division in its British office, with labor groups and online safety experts expressing worry that staff are being displaced by automated systems.
A company official explained that human moderation would still have a role, but artificial intelligence can safeguard staff by eliminating the most graphic content ahead of it gets reviewed by staff. The platform stated a 76% decrease in explicit and harmful content reviewed by safety staff over the last 12 months due to the use of its automated systems.
It is vital to balance people and machines to maintain a secure environment,” she said. “We’ll have humans as part of that process, but we additionally believe it’s extremely critical to limit contact with harmful content as quickly as possible, which is the area in which a extensive automated help is really helping us process content quickly.”
