The platform is rolling out a updated setting that permits them to lessen the quantity of AI-created videos appearing in their streams. This step comes as the service revealed that it presently contains more than 1 thousand million AI videos.
Testing and Rollout
The update is being tested over the coming weeks before a widespread release. This shift aligns with a increase in content created by AI, driven by recent AI video creators.
The Broader AI Trend
Studies have shown that almost a tenth of the most rapidly expanding content creators on another major platform primarily display clips produced artificially. A significant portion of this output is considered “AI slop”, a phrase for poor-quality, bulk-generated content that is often illogical or bizarre.
Our research shows that numerous viewers enjoy content created using AI tools, from AI artwork to science explainers, and we aim to offer the community the power to see more or less of that, based on their own choices,” stated a spokesperson.
Volume and Proportions
The platform shared that there are now 1.3bn videos on its service identified as AI-generated. Overall, more than 100 mn media items are submitted to the service each day, making AI content a relatively small percentage of its total content library.
Customizing Your Feed
Members will be able to reduce or increase the amount of artificial media they view by opening the “manage topic” option in the application and selecting the AI content topic. Other topics that currently be adjusted under the filter include current affairs, clothing, aesthetics, and movement.
AI Disclosure Rules
TikTok’s guidelines mandate users to identify “realistic” AI-generated content, and it forbids harmful fake videos of well-known individuals or emergencies. Any believable artificial content that is not labeled can be deleted under its community policies.
In addition, the app will from now on add an AI-generated tag to content made using its built-in AI features, or flagged by an industry-wide initiative for identifying AI-generated material. This step is designed to help prevent users from attempting to bypass the labeling process.
Educational Initiatives
The company is also establishing a $2m AI literacy fund for specialists and institutions to produce informative material about ethical AI use. This program will support non-profit groups specializing in training programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
TikTok has supported its safety measures, amid debate over plans to cut jobs for hundreds of safety staff in the UK. TikTok is expected to eliminate hundreds of positions in its user protection division in London, with worker representatives and internet security professionals voicing alarm that people are being substituted by automated systems.
A company official clarified that people-led review would still have a role, but artificial intelligence can protect employees by removing the most distressing content prior to it gets reviewed by staff. The company reported a notable drop in explicit and harmful content reviewed by human moderators over the last 12 months due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
We believe it is crucial to combine people and machines to keep the platform safe,” the executive stated. “We’ll have staff as part of that process, but we also think it’s very important to reduce exposure to harmful content as swiftly, which is the area in which a significant AI assistance is making a difference work at speed.”
