Users will soon have a fresh option that allows them to cut down on the volume of AI-created content appearing in their streams. This step comes as the service revealed that it currently hosts over 1 billion content made with AI.
Pilot Phase and Launch
This change is being tested over the coming weeks before a global launch. This development aligns with a surge in AI-generated material, spurred by emerging content generation software.
The Broader AI Trend
It has been noted that almost one in 10 of the most rapidly expanding video streams on a popular video site exclusively feature clips produced artificially. A significant portion of this material is deemed “AI slop”, a phrase for substandard, factory-style content that is typically nonsensical or surreal.
“We know from our community that a lot of users enjoy content created using AI tools, including computer-generated images to informative clips, and we aim to give people the ability to see more or less of that, based on their own preferences,” commented a spokesperson.
Scale of AI Content
The platform disclosed that there are currently 1.3 billion videos on its app tagged as AI-generated. Overall, more than 100 million pieces of content are submitted to the platform daily, making AI-generated material a minor portion of its total content library.
How to Adjust Settings
Viewers will be able to decrease or raise the level of AI-generated videos they watch by opening the topic control option in the app and choosing the AI content topic. Other topics that currently be controlled under the filter cover current affairs, style, beauty, and choreography.
Content Labeling and Policies
Its rules require users to label “realistic” AI-made content, and it forbids malicious AI impersonations of well-known individuals or emergencies. Any believable AI video that is unmarked can be removed under its user guidelines.
Furthermore, the platform will henceforth add an AI-generated label to content created with its built-in AI features, or detected by an collaborative effort for identifying content made by AI. This action is aimed to help prevent users from seeking to bypass the labeling process.
Responsible AI Funding
The platform is additionally launching a two million dollar AI literacy fund for experts and institutions to create informative material about responsible artificial intelligence. This program will support educational bodies focused on educating computer science.
Moderation Strategy
The video-sharing app has defended its safety measures, following discussion over proposals to make redundant numerous content moderators in the UK. TikTok is expected to cut a significant number of roles in its user protection team in London, with labor groups and online safety experts voicing alarm that people are being substituted by automated systems.
A senior executive clarified that human moderation would still have a role, but automated tools can safeguard staff by eliminating the most graphic content before it gets reviewed by people. The company stated a notable drop in explicit and harmful content seen by human moderators over the past year due to the use of its automated systems.
We believe it is crucial to integrate staff and AI to keep the platform safe,” she said. “We’ll have humans as integral to the approach, but we further consider it’s extremely critical to minimize viewing of harmful content as rapidly, which is the area in which a lot of the machine support is really helping us process content quickly.”
