Users will soon have a fresh option that enables them to reduce the volume of AI-created content appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the company announced that it now features more than 1 billion AI videos.
Pilot Phase and Launch
The update is being tested over the coming weeks before a full-scale launch. This development coincides with a increase in AI-generated material, driven by recent content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that almost one in 10 of the quickest rising video streams on a popular video site exclusively feature content made by AI. A significant portion of this material is deemed low-quality AI content, a label for poor-quality, factory-style content that is typically illogical or dreamlike.
Based on user feedback that a lot of users like content produced via AI tools, from AI artwork to science explainers, and we want to offer the community the ability to increase or decrease of that, based on their own preferences,” said a platform representative.
Scale of AI Content
TikTok announced that there are presently 1.3bn videos on its app labeled as artificially created. In total, over 100 mn media items are submitted to the app each day, making AI content a relatively small part of its complete catalog.
Customizing Your Feed
Members will be capable of reduce or increase the amount of AI content they see by using the “manage topic” feature in the platform and picking AI-made media. Further subjects that can already be modified under the setting cover current affairs, style, beauty, and choreography.
AI Disclosure Rules
Its guidelines mandate users to label “realistic” AI-made content, and it forbids dangerous AI impersonations of celebrities or critical incidents. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is not labeled can be taken down under its user guidelines.
Furthermore, the service will henceforth apply an AI-generated tag to content produced via its proprietary AI systems, or identified by an industry-wide initiative for identifying AI-generated material. This action is intended to stop users from attempting to bypass the labeling process.
AI Literacy Programs
The company is also establishing a $2m AI literacy fund for experts and organizations to produce educational content about using AI responsibly. This initiative will benefit non-profit groups focused on educating programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
TikTok has defended its safety measures, following discussion over plans to make redundant hundreds of safety staff in the United Kingdom. It is planning to cut hundreds of positions in its user protection department in the UK capital, with labor groups and internet security professionals voicing alarm that humans are being replaced by automated systems.
A trust and safety lead explained that people-led review would remain essential, but artificial intelligence can protect employees by eliminating the most harmful content prior to it gets reviewed by staff. TikTok stated a notable drop in explicit and harmful content reviewed by content reviewers over the past year due to reliance on its AI tools.
We believe it is crucial to balance staff and AI to ensure user safety,” the official commented. “We’ll have staff 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 where a extensive automated help is proving valuable work at speed.”
