Users will soon have a updated setting that permits them to reduce the amount of AI-made videos appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the service announced that it now features more than 1 billion AI videos.
Pilot Phase and Launch
The update is in a pilot phase over the following weeks before a widespread release. This shift aligns with a rise in AI content, spurred by recent video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that nearly 10% of the fastest-growing content creators on a competing service exclusively feature AI-generated videos. A large amount of this content is classified as low-quality AI content, a term for substandard, mass-produced content that is typically nonsensical or bizarre.
“We know from our community that many people enjoy content created using AI tools, including digital art to science explainers, and we intend to provide users the ability to adjust the amount of that, depending on their own preferences,” said a spokesperson.
AI on the Platform
The platform disclosed that there are presently 1.3bn videos on its network labeled as artificially created. In total, more than 100 million media items are uploaded to the app daily, making clips made by AI a minor part of its complete catalog.
How to Adjust Settings
Users will be able to limit or boost the level of AI content they view by opening the content preference option in the application and choosing AI-made media. Other topics that are already be adjusted under the tool encompass politics, clothing, aesthetics, and movement.
AI Disclosure Rules
Its rules mandate creators to tag convincing AI-generated content, and it bans harmful AI impersonations of public figures or emergencies. Any authentic-looking AI video that is unmarked can be deleted under its community policies.
Furthermore, the app will henceforth attach an AI-generated watermark to content produced via its own AI tools, or identified by an collaborative effort for recognizing AI-generated material. This action is designed to help prevent users from trying to circumvent the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
TikTok is additionally establishing a $2 million awareness program for specialists and groups to develop educational content about using AI responsibly. This project will support non-profit groups focused on educating computer science.
Platform Protection
The platform has supported its moderation strategy, following discussion over intentions to cut jobs for hundreds of content moderators in the UK. TikTok is planning to cut a significant number of roles in its user protection department in the UK capital, with labor groups and online safety experts expressing worry that humans are being replaced by AI moderation.
A trust and safety lead stated that human moderation would continue to be important, but artificial intelligence can safeguard staff by filtering out the most graphic content prior to it is viewed by people. TikTok reported a notable drop in explicit and harmful content reviewed by human moderators over the past year due to reliance on its automated systems.
It is vital to balance people and machines to keep the platform safe,” she said. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s extremely critical to minimize viewing of dangerous material as swiftly, which is where a lot of the machine support is really helping us work at speed.”
