The platform is rolling out a new feature that permits them to lessen the quantity of AI-made media appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the service disclosed that it currently hosts over 1 billion AI-generated clips.
Testing and Rollout
The new functionality is in a pilot phase over the next few weeks before a widespread release. This development coincides with a increase in content created by AI, fueled by new AI video creators.
The Broader AI Trend
It has been noted that almost one in 10 of the fastest-growing video streams on a popular video site exclusively feature clips produced artificially. A large amount of this content is deemed “AI slop”, a label for inferior, bulk-generated content that is often illogical or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that many people enjoy content created using AI tools, from computer-generated images to science explainers, and we want to give people the ability to increase or decrease of that, based on their own choices,” commented a spokesperson.
AI on the Platform
TikTok announced that there are now 1.3bn videos on its network labeled as AI-generated. Overall, in excess of 100 mn media items are added to the app each day, making AI-generated material a relatively small percentage of its complete catalog.
Customizing Your Feed
Viewers will be capable of reduce or increase the level of AI-generated videos they see by opening the content preference feature in the app and picking AI-made media. Additional categories that are already be modified under the setting cover current affairs, style, beauty, and dance.
Content Labeling and Policies
TikTok’s guidelines mandate users to label convincing AI-made content, and it forbids dangerous deepfakes of public figures or critical incidents. Any realistic artificial content that is unmarked can be removed under its community policies.
Furthermore, the app will from now on attach an “AI-made” tag to content produced via its own AI tools, or detected by an industry-wide initiative for spotting content made by AI. This action is intended to help prevent users from seeking to bypass the tagging system.
AI Literacy Programs
The platform is also launching a $2m educational fund for specialists and institutions to create informative material about responsible artificial intelligence. This program will support charitable organizations dedicated to training computer science.
Moderation Strategy
The video-sharing app has defended its content review process, amid controversy over intentions to cut jobs for numerous review team members in the United Kingdom. It is set to reduce 439 jobs in its content moderation team in the UK capital, with worker representatives and online safety experts voicing alarm that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.
A company official explained that human moderation would still have a role, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by filtering out the most graphic content ahead of it gets reviewed by people. The company reported a notable drop in disturbing and violent content handled by human moderators over the last 12 months due to intervention by its AI tools.
We believe it is crucial to integrate humans and technology to keep the platform safe,” she said. “We’ll have people as part of that process, but we additionally believe it’s extremely critical to minimize viewing of unsafe media as swiftly, which is the area in which a lot of the machine support is really helping us operate efficiently.”
