Users will soon have a new feature that permits them to lessen the amount of AI-created content appearing in their timelines. This initiative comes as the platform announced that it presently contains over 1 bn content made with AI.
Testing and Rollout
This change is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a full-scale release. This development coincides with a surge in AI-generated material, fueled by emerging video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that almost 10% of the most rapidly expanding content creators on a popular video site only show clips produced artificially. A considerable share of this material is classified as “AI slop”, a label for poor-quality, factory-style content that is typically nonsensical or bizarre.
“We know from our community that a lot of users like content produced via AI tools, including AI artwork to informative clips, and we aim to provide users the option to increase or decrease of that, according to their own preferences,” commented a company executive.
Volume and Proportions
The service shared that there are now 1.3bn videos on its network tagged as AI-generated. In total, in excess of 100 m media items are uploaded to the app daily, making AI-generated material a limited portion of its complete catalog.
User Control Features
Viewers will be in a position to limit or boost the level of AI content they view by opening the “manage topic” setting in the platform and picking the AI content topic. Additional categories that are already be modified under the filter cover politics, style, cosmetics, and movement.
Content Labeling and Policies
Its guidelines mandate creators to identify “realistic” AI-generated content, and it forbids malicious fake videos of well-known individuals or critical incidents. Any believable artificial content that is without a tag can be deleted under its community policies.
Furthermore, the service will from now on apply an AI-generated label to content made using its proprietary AI systems, or identified by an collaborative effort for spotting content made by AI. This step is intended to help prevent users from attempting to bypass the disclosure requirement.
Responsible AI Funding
TikTok is furthermore launching a two million dollar educational fund for professionals and institutions to create educational content about ethical AI use. This program will assist non-profit groups focused on training coding and technology.
Content Safety Approach
TikTok has supported its moderation strategy, during debate over plans to lay off a large number of review team members in Britain. TikTok is planning to reduce hundreds of positions in its content moderation division in the UK capital, with worker representatives and online safety experts raising concerns that humans are being replaced by machine-led review.
A company official explained that staff-based oversight would still have a role, but automated tools can safeguard staff by filtering out the most distressing content before it has to be seen by people. The company announced a 76% decrease in explicit and harmful content reviewed by content reviewers over the last 12 months due to intervention by its AI tools.
We believe it is crucial to combine staff and AI to ensure user safety,” the official commented. “We’ll have humans as integral to the approach, but we further consider it’s highly necessary to reduce exposure to unsafe media as quickly as possible, which is the area in which a extensive automated help is really helping us work at speed.”
