TikTok is introducing a fresh option that enables them to cut down on the quantity of artificial intelligence-produced content appearing in their feeds. This step comes as the platform revealed that it currently hosts in excess of 1 billion AI-generated clips.
Trial and Implementation
This change is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a global rollout. This development aligns with a surge in AI content, spurred by recent video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that almost 10% of the most rapidly expanding channels on a competing service primarily display clips produced artificially. A significant portion of this material is deemed “AI slop”, a phrase for poor-quality, mass-produced content that is frequently illogical or bizarre.
Based on user feedback that numerous viewers like content produced via AI tools, including AI artwork to science explainers, and we intend to give people the power to see more or less of that, based on their own likes,” commented a spokesperson.
Scale of AI Content
TikTok shared that there are currently over a billion videos on its app tagged as artificially created. Collectively, more than 100 mn videos are submitted to the service each day, making AI content a relatively small portion of its overall inventory.
User Control Features
Viewers will be able to limit or boost the amount of AI content they watch by opening the topic control feature in the application and choosing the AI content topic. Further subjects that can already be modified under the filter include current affairs, clothing, cosmetics, and choreography.
Platform Guidelines
TikTok’s policies mandate content makers to identify “realistic” artificially created content, and it prohibits malicious AI impersonations of well-known individuals or emergencies. Any believable artificial content that is without a tag can be taken down under its terms of service.
Additionally, the platform will henceforth add an “AI-made” watermark to content created with its built-in AI features, or flagged by an collaborative effort for identifying AI-generated material. This measure is intended to stop users from seeking to evade the labeling process.
Responsible AI Funding
TikTok is furthermore establishing a $2m AI literacy fund for specialists and organizations to produce educational content about ethical AI use. This initiative will support non-profit groups specializing in teaching computer science.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has justified its safety measures, during discussion over plans to make redundant hundreds of content moderators in Britain. It is planning to eliminate hundreds of positions in its content moderation team in London, with trade unions and internet security professionals raising concerns that humans are being replaced by automated systems.
A company official stated that human moderation would remain essential, but automated tools can safeguard staff by removing the most harmful content before it is viewed by staff. The platform announced a 76% decrease in explicit and harmful content seen by content reviewers over the previous year due to reliance on its machine learning processes.
It is vital to integrate humans and technology to maintain a secure environment,” she said. “We’ll have staff as part of that process, but we also think it’s highly necessary to limit contact with harmful content as swiftly, which is why a lot of the machine support is really helping us operate efficiently.”