Users will soon have a fresh option that permits them to lessen the volume of AI-made videos appearing in their timelines. This move comes as the platform announced that it presently contains more than 1 bn AI videos.
Pilot Phase and Launch
The update is undergoing trials over the next few weeks before a global release. This shift coincides with a surge in content created by AI, spurred by recent content generation software.
AI Proliferation Online
Recent reports that approximately one in 10 of the most rapidly expanding channels on a competing service exclusively feature AI-generated videos. A large amount of this content is classified as “AI slop”, a term for inferior, mass-produced content that is often illogical or bizarre.
“We know from our community that a lot of users appreciate content created using AI tools, ranging from digital art to science explainers, and we want to give people the ability to see more or less of that, based on their own choices,” said a platform representative.
AI on the Platform
The platform shared that there are presently over a billion videos on its network tagged as AI-generated. Collectively, more than 100 mn pieces of content are submitted to the platform every day, making AI-generated material a relatively small portion of its complete catalog.
User Control Features
Members will be able to reduce or increase the volume of AI-generated videos they see by using the topic control feature in the application and picking the AI content topic. Other topics that are already be modified under the setting include news, style, aesthetics, and choreography.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s guidelines require creators to tag convincing AI-generated content, and it forbids harmful deepfakes of public figures or crisis events. Any realistic artificial content that is unmarked can be deleted under its user guidelines.
Additionally, the app will from now on attach an artificially created watermark to content made using its proprietary AI systems, or detected by an cross-platform project for spotting content made by AI. This step is aimed to help prevent users from trying to evade the labeling process.
Educational Initiatives
The company is additionally establishing a $2m educational fund for professionals and institutions to create learning resources about responsible artificial intelligence. This initiative will support charitable organizations specializing in training coding and technology.
Moderation Strategy
TikTok has justified its safety measures, during discussion over proposals to make redundant a large number of safety staff in the UK. It is planning to cut 439 jobs in its trust and safety division in London, with worker representatives and digital protection specialists voicing alarm that people are being substituted by machine-led review.
A senior executive stated that staff-based oversight would remain essential, but AI can safeguard staff by removing the most graphic content ahead of it gets reviewed by humans. The platform stated a notable drop in disturbing and violent content handled by safety staff over the last 12 months due to intervention by its AI tools.
“We think that it’s essential to balance humans and technology to keep the platform safe,” the official commented. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s extremely critical to reduce exposure to unsafe media as quickly as possible, which is the area in which a extensive automated help is really helping us operate efficiently.”
