The platform is rolling out a fresh option that enables them to reduce the amount of AI-created videos appearing in their timelines. This step comes as the platform disclosed that it now features over 1 thousand million AI-generated clips.
Pilot Phase and Launch
The new functionality is being tested over the next few weeks before a global release. This advancement coincides with a increase in AI content, fueled by emerging AI video creators.
The Broader AI Trend
It has been noted that approximately 10% of the quickest rising content creators on a competing service primarily display content made by AI. A considerable share of this content is classified as low-quality AI content, a phrase for inferior, mass-produced content that is frequently nonsensical or surreal.
Our research shows that numerous viewers like content created using AI tools, including AI artwork to educational videos, and we aim to offer the community the option to adjust the amount of that, based on their own choices,” said a platform representative.
AI on the Platform
The service shared that there are currently 1.3 billion videos on its service tagged as AI-generated. Overall, more than 100 mn pieces of content are uploaded to the platform each day, making clips made by AI a limited portion of its overall inventory.
Customizing Your Feed
Members will be capable of decrease or raise the level of AI-generated videos they see by opening the content preference option in the app and choosing “AI-generated content”. Additional categories that currently be adjusted under the tool cover current affairs, clothing, aesthetics, and choreography.
Platform Guidelines
Its guidelines mandate content makers to tag “realistic” artificially created content, and it bans harmful fake videos of well-known individuals or emergencies. Any believable artificial content that is unmarked can be removed under its user guidelines.
Additionally, the platform will from now on apply an “AI-made” tag to content made using its proprietary AI systems, or identified by an collaborative effort for spotting content made by AI. This action is intended to deter users from attempting to evade the disclosure requirement.
Responsible AI Funding
The platform is also establishing a two million dollar AI literacy fund for specialists and groups to develop informative material about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will support educational bodies focused on training computer science.
Content Safety Approach
TikTok has supported its content review process, amid discussion over intentions to lay off hundreds of content moderators in the UK. The company is set to reduce hundreds of positions in its user protection team in the UK capital, with trade unions and online safety experts voicing alarm that people are being substituted by machine-led review.
A senior executive stated that human moderation would still have a role, but AI can shield workers by removing the most harmful content prior to it gets reviewed by staff. The platform stated a notable drop in disturbing and violent content seen by content reviewers over the past year due to intervention by its automated systems.
It is vital to combine humans and technology to ensure user safety,” the official commented. “We’ll have people as part of that process, but we further consider it’s highly necessary to minimize viewing of unsafe media as swiftly, which is where a lot of the machine support is making a difference process content quickly.”
