Users will soon have a fresh option that enables them to reduce the amount of AI-created videos appearing in their streams. This step comes as the platform announced that it currently hosts over 1 billion content made with AI.
Testing and Rollout
The new functionality is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a global launch. This shift aligns with a rise in AI-generated material, driven by recent AI video creators.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that almost a tenth of the most rapidly expanding video streams on a popular video site only show AI-generated videos. A considerable share of this output is classified as low-quality AI content, a phrase for inferior, bulk-generated content that is often absurd or bizarre.
Based on user feedback that numerous viewers like content made with AI tools, ranging from computer-generated images to science explainers, and we intend to give people the ability to adjust the amount of that, based on their own likes,” stated a spokesperson.
Scale of AI Content
TikTok shared that there are presently over a billion videos on its app tagged as artificially created. Overall, in excess of 100 mn media items are added to the app every day, making AI-generated material a relatively small part of its overall inventory.
User Control Features
Members will be capable of reduce or increase the level of AI-generated videos they watch by accessing the topic control setting in the app and selecting “AI-generated content”. Additional categories that are already be adjusted under the tool include politics, style, beauty, and dance.
Content Labeling and Policies
TikTok’s policies require users to tag convincing artificially created content, and it forbids malicious fake videos of celebrities or crisis events. Any authentic-looking AI video that is without a tag can be deleted under its user guidelines.
Furthermore, the app will from now on add an “AI-made” label to content made using its built-in AI features, or flagged by an industry-wide initiative for identifying artificial media. This measure is aimed to deter users from seeking to evade the tagging system.
Responsible AI Funding
TikTok is also establishing a $2m AI literacy fund for specialists and groups to create educational content about using AI responsibly. This project will assist charitable organizations focused on teaching programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has justified its content review process, amid debate over plans to make redundant a large number of review team members in Britain. It is set to reduce a significant number of roles in its user protection department in its British office, with worker representatives and digital protection specialists raising concerns that people are being substituted by machine-led review.
A senior executive stated that staff-based oversight would remain essential, but artificial intelligence can protect employees by eliminating the most harmful content prior to it is viewed by staff. TikTok announced a 76% decrease in disturbing and violent content handled by human moderators over the past year due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
We believe it is crucial to integrate staff and AI to ensure user safety,” she said. “We’ll have people as part of that process, but we further consider it’s very important to limit contact with harmful content as rapidly, which is why a significant AI assistance is proving valuable process content quickly.”
