Users will soon have a fresh option that allows them to reduce the volume of AI-created media appearing in their timelines. This move comes as the company revealed that it currently hosts in excess of 1 thousand million AI videos.
Pilot Phase and Launch
This change is being tested over the following weeks before a widespread release. This advancement aligns with a rise in AI content, driven by recent AI video creators.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that nearly a tenth of the quickest rising channels on another major platform exclusively feature clips produced artificially. A large amount of this output is deemed “AI slop”, a label for poor-quality, bulk-generated content that is often illogical or surreal.
Based on user feedback that a lot of users appreciate content made with AI tools, from computer-generated images to informative clips, and we want to provide users the power to increase or decrease of that, based on their own likes,” stated a spokesperson.
AI on the Platform
The platform shared that there are now 1.3 billion videos on its app identified as AI-generated. Overall, more than 100 million pieces of content are uploaded to the service daily, making AI content a limited percentage of its complete catalog.
Customizing Your Feed
Viewers will be in a position to decrease or raise the amount of AI content they watch by using the topic control feature in the platform and choosing AI-made media. Other topics that can already be adjusted under the setting cover current affairs, style, aesthetics, and movement.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s rules oblige users to identify “realistic” AI-generated content, and it prohibits harmful fake videos of well-known individuals or emergencies. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be removed under its community policies.
Furthermore, the service will henceforth add an AI-generated label to content produced via its own AI tools, or identified by an collaborative effort for spotting artificial media. This measure is designed to deter users from seeking to evade the tagging system.
Responsible AI Funding
The platform is additionally launching a two million dollar awareness program for professionals and institutions to produce educational content about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will support educational bodies dedicated to teaching coding and technology.
Content Safety Approach
The platform has supported its content review process, amid discussion over proposals to lay off a large number of safety staff in the UK. TikTok is expected to cut 439 jobs in its trust and safety division in the UK capital, with labor groups and internet security professionals expressing worry that humans are being replaced by machine-led review.
A trust and safety lead stated that staff-based oversight would continue to be important, but AI can safeguard staff by eliminating the most graphic content prior to it is viewed by staff. The company stated a notable drop in disturbing and violent content reviewed by human moderators over the previous year due to reliance on its AI tools.
“We think that it’s essential to balance humans and technology to ensure user safety,” the official commented. “We’ll have humans as integral to the approach, but we additionally believe it’s very important to reduce exposure to harmful content as rapidly, which is the area in which a lot of the machine support is really helping us process content quickly.”
