Users will soon have a fresh option that enables them to reduce the volume of AI-created media appearing in their streams. This step comes as the platform revealed that it presently contains over 1 thousand million content made with AI.
Testing and Rollout
This change is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a global rollout. This advancement coincides with a surge in AI-generated material, spurred by recent video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that nearly a tenth of the fastest-growing channels on a popular video site primarily display AI-generated videos. A significant portion of this material is considered mass-produced AI material, a label for inferior, bulk-generated content that is typically absurd or surreal.
Our research shows that a lot of users enjoy content created using AI tools, including 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 likes,” commented a platform representative.
AI on the Platform
The platform shared that there are currently over a billion videos on its network labeled as AI-generated. In total, over 100 million media items are uploaded to the app each day, making AI content a minor percentage of its overall inventory.
How to Adjust Settings
Users will be in a position to reduce or increase the level of AI-generated videos they see by accessing the “manage topic” setting in the app and picking “AI-generated content”. Other topics that can already be controlled under the tool encompass politics, clothing, beauty, and choreography.
Content Labeling and Policies
Its policies require content makers to label convincing AI-generated content, and it prohibits harmful AI impersonations of well-known individuals or emergencies. Any authentic-looking artificial content that is without a tag can be removed under its terms of service.
Furthermore, the platform will from now on apply an AI-generated tag to content made using its proprietary AI systems, or detected by an cross-platform project for spotting artificial media. This measure is intended to deter users from trying to bypass the tagging system.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is furthermore launching a $2 million AI literacy fund for professionals and groups to develop informative material about ethical AI use. This initiative will benefit educational bodies dedicated to training coding and technology.
Moderation Strategy
TikTok has supported its moderation strategy, following debate over proposals to lay off a large number of review team members in the UK. The company is set to eliminate a significant number of roles in its trust and safety department in London, with labor groups and internet security professionals voicing alarm that staff are being displaced by automated systems.
A company official explained that staff-based oversight would still have a role, but automated tools can shield workers by eliminating the most graphic content ahead of it gets reviewed by staff. The platform reported a 76% decrease in disturbing and violent content seen by content reviewers over the previous year due to intervention by its automated systems.
“We think that it’s essential to combine staff and AI to keep the platform safe,” she said. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s highly necessary to limit contact with dangerous material as rapidly, which is the area in which a significant AI assistance is really helping us process content quickly.”
