Users will soon have a new feature that enables them to lessen the amount of artificial intelligence-produced videos appearing in their feeds. This initiative comes as the service announced that it now features more than 1 billion AI videos.
Testing and Rollout
The new functionality is being tested over the coming weeks before a full-scale release. This advancement aligns with a surge in AI content, fueled by emerging content generation software.
The Broader AI Trend
Recent reports that almost 10% of the quickest rising content creators on another major platform primarily display clips produced artificially. A large amount of this material is deemed “AI slop”, a phrase for poor-quality, factory-style content that is often absurd or bizarre.
Based on user feedback that a lot of users like content made with AI tools, from AI artwork to science explainers, and we aim to provide users the power to see more or less of that, based on their own likes,” commented a company executive.
Scale of AI Content
The platform announced that there are currently 1.3bn videos on its service identified as artificially created. Overall, in excess of 100 million pieces of content are submitted to the app every day, making AI-generated material a relatively small percentage of its overall inventory.
Customizing Your Feed
Members will be capable of limit or boost the level of AI-generated videos they see by accessing the topic control option in the app and picking “AI-generated content”. Further subjects that are already be modified under the filter cover current affairs, clothing, beauty, and dance.
Platform Guidelines
Its rules oblige content makers to label “realistic” AI-generated content, and it prohibits dangerous fake videos of celebrities or emergencies. Any believable AI video that is not labeled can be deleted under its terms of service.
In addition, the service will henceforth add an “AI-made” label to content produced via its own AI tools, or flagged by an industry-wide initiative for recognizing artificial media. This step is designed to help prevent users from seeking to bypass the labeling process.
AI Literacy Programs
TikTok is furthermore launching a $2 million educational fund for professionals and organizations to produce learning resources about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will assist charitable organizations dedicated to teaching computer science.
Content Safety Approach
TikTok has justified its safety measures, during debate over intentions to lay off a large number of safety staff in the United Kingdom. It is expected to reduce hundreds of positions in its content moderation department in the UK capital, with labor groups and digital protection specialists expressing worry that staff are being displaced by automated systems.
A senior executive explained that staff-based oversight would remain essential, but automated tools can protect employees by filtering out the most graphic content before it gets reviewed by humans. The company announced a 76% decrease in disturbing and violent content seen by human moderators over the past year due to reliance on its machine learning processes.
It is vital to integrate people and machines to keep the platform safe,” she said. “We’ll have humans as integral to the approach, but we also think it’s extremely critical to minimize viewing of dangerous material as quickly as possible, which is the area in which a extensive automated help is really helping us operate efficiently.”
