Users will soon have a updated setting that allows them to reduce the amount of artificial intelligence-produced media appearing in their streams. This step comes as the service announced that it currently hosts more than 1 bn AI videos.
Testing and Rollout
The update is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a global release. This shift comes amid a surge in AI content, driven by recent content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Studies have shown that almost one in 10 of the most rapidly expanding content creators on a competing service exclusively feature content made by AI. A large amount of this material is deemed mass-produced AI material, a label for poor-quality, factory-style content that is frequently illogical or surreal.
Our research shows that a lot of users enjoy content made with AI tools, including computer-generated images to science explainers, and we aim to give people the power to see more or less of that, depending on their own choices,” commented a platform representative.
AI on the Platform
TikTok shared that there are now over a billion videos on its app identified as artificially created. Collectively, over 100 mn pieces of content are submitted to the app daily, making AI-generated material a limited percentage of its total content library.
Customizing Your Feed
Members will be capable of decrease or raise the volume of artificial media they watch by using the topic control option in the application and selecting the AI content topic. Other topics that are already be modified under the setting cover news, clothing, aesthetics, and choreography.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s rules mandate content makers to tag lifelike AI-made content, and it bans malicious AI impersonations of public figures or crisis events. Any believable artificial content that is without a tag can be deleted under its terms of service.
Furthermore, the app will from now on apply an AI-generated label to content made using its built-in AI features, or identified by an collaborative effort for recognizing AI-generated material. This measure is intended to help prevent users from trying to bypass the labeling process.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is also establishing a $2m awareness program for specialists and organizations to create informative material about responsible artificial intelligence. This initiative will assist educational bodies specializing in teaching coding and technology.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has supported its content review process, amid discussion over intentions to cut jobs for a large number of safety staff in the UK. The company is expected to eliminate 439 jobs in its user protection department in the UK capital, with labor groups and digital protection specialists voicing alarm that humans are being replaced by AI moderation.
A senior executive explained that people-led review would still have a role, but artificial intelligence can protect employees by eliminating the most harmful content before it has to be seen by humans. TikTok announced a notable drop in shocking and graphic content seen by human moderators over the previous year due to reliance on its machine learning processes.
“We think that it’s essential to combine staff and AI to keep the platform safe,” the executive stated. “We’ll have people as part of that process, but we additionally believe it’s very important to limit contact with harmful content as rapidly, which is the area in which a extensive automated help is really helping us work at speed.”
