TikTok is introducing a fresh option that allows them to lessen the amount of artificial intelligence-produced content appearing in their timelines. This step comes as the platform announced that it currently hosts more than 1 thousand million AI-generated clips.
Testing and Rollout
The update is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a widespread rollout. This advancement comes amid a increase in AI content, driven by emerging content generation software.
AI Proliferation Online
Studies have shown that almost a tenth of the most rapidly expanding content creators on a competing service primarily display AI-generated videos. A significant portion of this output is considered low-quality AI content, a label for inferior, mass-produced content that is typically absurd or surreal.
Our research shows that many people appreciate content created using AI tools, from AI artwork to informative clips, and we aim to provide users the option to increase or decrease of that, depending on their own choices,” commented a company executive.
AI on the Platform
The service announced that there are currently over a billion videos on its network tagged as artificially created. Collectively, over 100 mn videos are added to the platform every day, making AI-generated material a relatively small percentage of its total content library.
Customizing Your Feed
Users will be able to reduce or increase the volume of AI content they view by using the content preference feature in the app and picking AI-made media. Additional categories that can already be modified under the setting include news, clothing, aesthetics, and choreography.
Content Labeling and Policies
Its rules mandate users to label convincing artificially created content, and it bans malicious fake videos of public figures or crisis events. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is not labeled can be taken down under its community policies.
Additionally, the platform will from now on attach an “AI-made” tag to content made using its proprietary AI systems, or identified by an industry-wide initiative for identifying AI-generated material. This action is designed to help prevent users from trying to circumvent the labeling process.
AI Literacy Programs
The company is also establishing a two million dollar AI literacy fund for experts and institutions to produce learning resources about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will support non-profit groups specializing in teaching programming and robotics.
Moderation Strategy
The platform has defended its content review process, during discussion over intentions to cut jobs for numerous content moderators in Britain. It is planning to reduce hundreds of positions in its content moderation division in its British office, with worker representatives and online safety experts expressing worry that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.
A company official stated that staff-based oversight would remain essential, but AI can protect employees by removing the most distressing content prior to it gets reviewed by humans. The platform announced a significant reduction in shocking and graphic content handled by safety staff over the past year due to reliance on its automated systems.
“We think that it’s essential to combine staff and AI to ensure user safety,” the executive stated. “We’ll have humans as integral to the approach, but we also think it’s extremely critical to limit contact with unsafe media as quickly as possible, which is the area in which a lot of the machine support is proving valuable operate efficiently.”
