Users will soon have a updated setting that allows them to reduce the quantity of artificial intelligence-produced videos appearing in their timelines. This step comes as the company announced that it now features more than 1 thousand million AI videos.
Testing and Rollout
This change is being tested over the next few weeks before a global rollout. This advancement aligns with a increase in content created by AI, driven by emerging AI video creators.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that nearly one in 10 of the most rapidly expanding video streams on another major platform exclusively feature clips produced artificially. A significant portion of this content is considered “AI slop”, a phrase for inferior, factory-style content that is frequently absurd or dreamlike.
Our research shows that a lot of users like content produced via AI tools, from computer-generated images to educational videos, and we aim to give people the ability to increase or decrease of that, according to their own likes,” commented a spokesperson.
AI on the Platform
The platform shared that there are now over a billion videos on its service tagged as artificially created. In total, over 100 mn videos are uploaded to the platform every day, making clips made by AI a relatively small portion of its complete catalog.
Customizing Your Feed
Members will be capable of decrease or raise the volume of AI content they watch by accessing the “manage topic” setting in the platform and choosing the AI content topic. Additional categories that are already be adjusted under the setting include current affairs, style, aesthetics, and dance.
Platform Guidelines
TikTok’s policies oblige users to tag lifelike artificially created content, and it prohibits malicious deepfakes of public figures or crisis events. Any authentic-looking artificial content that is unmarked can be deleted under its community policies.
In addition, the platform will henceforth apply an “AI-made” tag to content produced via its built-in AI features, or flagged by an industry-wide initiative for identifying artificial media. This action is designed to deter users from attempting to evade the disclosure requirement.
AI Literacy Programs
TikTok is furthermore launching a two million dollar educational fund for experts and groups to produce informative material about ethical AI use. This project will benefit educational bodies dedicated to training programming and robotics.
Content Safety Approach
The video-sharing app has defended its content review process, amid debate over plans to cut jobs for hundreds of safety staff in the UK. TikTok is planning to cut 439 jobs in its trust and safety team in London, with labor groups and digital protection specialists expressing worry that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.
A senior executive explained that human moderation would continue to be important, but artificial intelligence can safeguard staff by removing the most graphic content ahead of it has to be seen by people. The company stated a notable drop in shocking and graphic content handled by content reviewers over the previous year due to reliance on its automated systems.
“We think that it’s essential to integrate humans and technology to keep the platform safe,” the executive stated. “We’ll have people as part of that process, but we additionally believe it’s highly necessary to minimize viewing of harmful content as quickly as possible, which is where a extensive automated help is really helping us process content quickly.”
