Users will soon have a updated setting that allows them to lessen the amount of AI-created videos appearing in their streams. This step comes as the service announced that it currently hosts over 1 thousand million content made with AI.
Pilot Phase and Launch
The new functionality is being tested over the next few weeks before a global launch. This shift coincides with a rise in content created by AI, spurred by recent video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that nearly 10% of the fastest-growing video streams on another major platform exclusively feature AI-generated videos. A significant portion of this output is classified as low-quality AI content, a label for poor-quality, factory-style content that is frequently nonsensical or surreal.
“We know from our community that many people appreciate content created using AI tools, ranging from computer-generated images to educational videos, and we intend to provide users the power to adjust the amount of that, according to their own likes,” commented a company executive.
Volume and Proportions
The service shared that there are now 1.3 billion videos on its service tagged as made with AI. Overall, over 100 mn pieces of content are submitted to the app daily, making clips made by AI a relatively small percentage of its complete catalog.
Customizing Your Feed
Members will be capable of reduce or increase the volume of artificial media they view by opening the “manage topic” feature in the platform and picking the AI content topic. Other topics that currently be adjusted under the setting encompass current affairs, style, aesthetics, and choreography.
AI Disclosure Rules
Its policies oblige content makers to label convincing artificially created content, and it prohibits malicious AI impersonations of celebrities or critical incidents. Any authentic-looking AI video that is unmarked can be deleted under its terms of service.
Furthermore, the app will henceforth apply an “AI-made” tag to content created with its own AI tools, or flagged by an cross-platform project for recognizing artificial media. This action is intended to stop users from seeking to bypass the tagging system.
AI Literacy Programs
TikTok is additionally launching a $2m AI literacy fund for professionals and organizations to develop learning resources about using AI responsibly. This program will assist non-profit groups focused on training programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has justified its safety measures, following discussion over plans to make redundant numerous content moderators in the UK. The company is set to cut 439 jobs in its user protection division in its British office, with trade unions and digital protection specialists raising concerns that people are being substituted by machine-led review.
A trust and safety lead explained that staff-based oversight would remain essential, but AI can protect employees by filtering out the most distressing content ahead of it is viewed by people. TikTok announced a significant reduction in explicit and harmful content handled by human moderators over the past year due to the use of its AI tools.
We believe it is crucial to integrate humans and technology to maintain a secure environment,” the official commented. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we also think it’s very important to minimize viewing of dangerous material as swiftly, which is why a extensive automated help is proving valuable work at speed.”
