TikTok is introducing a updated setting that allows them to reduce the amount of AI-made content appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the platform revealed that it now features in excess of 1 billion content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
The update is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a widespread release. This advancement coincides with a rise in AI-generated material, spurred by new video-generation tools.
AI Proliferation Online
Studies have shown that approximately a tenth of the fastest-growing channels on a popular video site primarily display clips produced artificially. A significant portion of this content is deemed mass-produced AI material, a term for inferior, mass-produced content that is frequently absurd or surreal.
“We know from our community that many people appreciate content created using AI tools, from computer-generated images to science explainers, and we intend to give people the ability to adjust the amount of that, according to their own likes,” commented a spokesperson.
Scale of AI Content
The platform announced that there are currently over a billion videos on its service identified as AI-generated. Overall, more than 100 million pieces of content are uploaded to the app daily, making clips made by AI a relatively small part of its overall inventory.
User Control Features
Users will be able to decrease or raise the level of AI-generated videos they see by using the content preference setting in the app and picking AI-made media. Additional categories that can already be controlled under the tool encompass news, fashion, cosmetics, and choreography.
Platform Guidelines
Its policies require users to tag convincing AI-generated content, and it bans dangerous AI impersonations of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any realistic artificial content that is without a tag can be taken down under its user guidelines.
Additionally, the service will henceforth add an AI-generated tag to content created with its built-in AI features, or flagged by an industry-wide initiative for identifying AI-generated material. This action is designed to stop users from attempting to circumvent the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
The platform is also launching a $2m AI literacy fund for specialists and groups to produce learning resources about ethical AI use. This program will support non-profit groups dedicated to training computer science.
Content Safety Approach
The video-sharing app has supported its content review process, following debate over intentions to cut jobs for a large number of content moderators in Britain. It is set to reduce a significant number of roles in its user protection team in London, with trade unions and internet security professionals raising concerns that humans are being replaced by automated systems.
A company official clarified that people-led review would continue to be important, but AI can safeguard staff by removing the most graphic content ahead of it has to be seen by staff. The company stated a notable drop in disturbing and violent content reviewed by safety staff over the previous year due to intervention by its automated systems.
We believe it is crucial to combine people and machines to maintain a secure environment,” the official commented. “We’ll have humans as involved in the system, but we also think it’s highly necessary to minimize viewing of harmful content as rapidly, which is why a extensive automated help is really helping us process content quickly.”
