The platform is rolling out a updated setting that enables them to lessen the amount of artificial intelligence-produced content appearing in their feeds. This initiative comes as the platform announced that it currently hosts more than 1 bn AI-generated clips.
Trial and Implementation
This change is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a full-scale release. This development coincides with a rise in AI content, fueled by new AI video creators.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Studies have shown that nearly 10% of the quickest rising video streams on a popular video site exclusively feature AI-generated videos. A significant portion of this content is deemed “AI slop”, a phrase for inferior, factory-style content that is typically illogical or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that many people enjoy content produced via AI tools, from digital art to educational videos, and we want to offer the community the option to adjust the amount of that, based on their own likes,” stated a platform representative.
AI on the Platform
The platform disclosed that there are now over a billion videos on its app identified as made with AI. Collectively, over 100 m pieces of content are added to the service each day, making clips made by AI a minor part of its overall inventory.
How to Adjust Settings
Viewers will be capable of decrease or raise the amount of AI-generated videos they see by using the “manage topic” option in the platform and choosing “AI-generated content”. Further subjects that currently be controlled under the setting cover current affairs, fashion, cosmetics, and choreography.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s rules oblige users to label “realistic” artificially created content, and it forbids harmful fake videos of celebrities or emergencies. Any believable AI video that is without a tag can be removed under its terms of service.
Furthermore, the app will from now on add an artificially created tag to content made using its built-in AI features, or flagged by an industry-wide initiative for recognizing content made by AI. This action is aimed to stop users from attempting to evade the tagging system.
AI Literacy Programs
The company is also launching a $2 million AI literacy fund for experts and groups to produce learning resources about ethical AI use. This project will support charitable organizations focused on educating programming and robotics.
Moderation Strategy
TikTok has supported its safety measures, during discussion over plans to make redundant a large number of content moderators in the UK. TikTok is set to cut 439 jobs in its trust and safety department in the UK capital, with worker representatives and internet security professionals raising concerns that people are being substituted by automated systems.
A senior executive stated that people-led review would remain essential, but automated tools can protect employees by eliminating the most harmful content ahead of it gets reviewed by staff. The company reported a notable drop in disturbing and violent content handled by safety staff over the last 12 months due to intervention by its automated systems.
“We think that it’s essential to balance staff and AI to ensure user safety,” the official commented. “We’ll have people as part of that process, but we additionally believe it’s highly necessary to reduce exposure to harmful content as swiftly, which is where a lot of the machine support is proving valuable operate efficiently.”
