TikTok is introducing a updated setting that allows them to cut down on the quantity of AI-made content appearing in their timelines. This step comes as the platform revealed that it currently hosts more than 1 thousand million AI-generated clips.
Trial and Implementation
This change is undergoing trials over the next few weeks before a full-scale release. This development aligns with a increase in AI-generated material, driven by recent video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that approximately a tenth of the quickest rising video streams on another major platform primarily display clips produced artificially. A significant portion of this output is considered low-quality AI content, a phrase for inferior, bulk-generated content that is often absurd or surreal.
Based on user feedback that many people appreciate content made with AI tools, from AI artwork to informative clips, and we intend to offer the community the option to adjust the amount of that, depending on their own choices,” commented a spokesperson.
AI on the Platform
TikTok shared that there are now 1.3bn videos on its network labeled as AI-generated. In total, in excess of 100 million pieces of content are submitted to the platform every day, making clips made by AI a relatively small portion of its total content library.
User Control Features
Users will be able to decrease or raise the amount of artificial media they see by accessing the content preference feature in the platform and picking the AI content topic. Other topics that are already be controlled under the tool cover politics, clothing, beauty, and dance.
Content Labeling and Policies
The platform’s rules mandate creators to label “realistic” artificially created content, and it forbids harmful AI impersonations of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is unmarked can be deleted under its community policies.
Additionally, the service will from now on add an AI-generated watermark to content created with its proprietary AI systems, or identified by an collaborative effort for spotting content made by AI. This measure is aimed to deter users from seeking to bypass the disclosure requirement.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is furthermore establishing a $2m educational fund for professionals and groups to produce educational content about responsible artificial intelligence. This program will assist educational bodies focused on training programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
TikTok has justified its content review process, amid discussion over intentions to cut jobs for a large number of content moderators in the UK. It is set to eliminate a significant number of roles in its user protection department in London, with worker representatives and online safety experts raising concerns that people are being substituted by machine-led review.
A company official clarified that staff-based oversight would continue to be important, but artificial intelligence can protect employees by filtering out the most harmful content before it gets reviewed by staff. The company reported a notable drop in shocking and graphic content handled by content reviewers over the previous year due to reliance on its automated systems.
It is vital to balance people and machines to ensure user safety,” the executive stated. “We’ll have people as part of that process, but we further consider it’s highly necessary to limit contact with dangerous material as quickly as possible, which is why a lot of the machine support is making a difference work at speed.”
