Users will soon have a new feature that allows them to lessen the volume of AI-made videos appearing in their streams. This move comes as the platform revealed that it currently hosts over 1 billion AI-generated clips.
Trial and Implementation
The new functionality is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a widespread launch. This development comes amid a rise in content created by AI, spurred by new AI video creators.
The Broader AI Trend
Recent reports that approximately a tenth of the most rapidly expanding video streams on a competing service primarily display clips produced artificially. A large amount of this material is classified as “AI slop”, a term for substandard, factory-style content that is frequently absurd or surreal.
“We know from our community that a lot of users enjoy content created using AI tools, ranging from computer-generated images to educational videos, and we aim to give people the ability to adjust the amount of that, according to their own choices,” commented a spokesperson.
Volume and Proportions
TikTok shared that there are currently 1.3 billion videos on its network identified as made with AI. In total, over 100 mn pieces of content are added to the app each day, making AI content a relatively small part of its overall inventory.
User Control Features
Viewers will be in a position to limit or boost the amount of artificial media they watch by accessing the content preference setting in the app and choosing “AI-generated content”. Other topics that can already be modified under the tool encompass politics, fashion, cosmetics, and dance.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s policies require creators to label convincing AI-generated content, and it prohibits harmful deepfakes of well-known individuals or emergencies. Any realistic artificial content that is without a tag can be removed under its terms of service.
Furthermore, the platform will now add an AI-generated watermark to content produced via its own AI tools, or flagged by an industry-wide initiative for spotting content made by AI. This measure is designed to deter users from seeking to evade the tagging system.
AI Literacy Programs
The company is furthermore launching a two million dollar educational fund for specialists and organizations to produce educational content about ethical AI use. This program will benefit educational bodies specializing in teaching programming and robotics.
Content Safety Approach
The platform has supported its moderation strategy, following discussion over plans to cut jobs for numerous content moderators in the United Kingdom. TikTok is expected to eliminate 439 jobs in its content moderation team in the UK capital, with trade unions and internet security professionals expressing worry that humans are being replaced by automated systems.
A company official stated that people-led review would continue to be important, but AI can shield workers by filtering out the most graphic content ahead of it has to be seen by people. The platform reported a notable drop in disturbing and violent content reviewed by content reviewers over the previous year due to reliance on its automated systems.
We believe it is crucial to balance humans and technology to maintain a secure environment,” the official commented. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s extremely critical to minimize viewing of unsafe media as rapidly, which is why a lot of the machine support is proving valuable operate efficiently.”
