Users will soon have a updated setting that permits them to lessen the volume of AI-created content appearing in their feeds. This move comes as the company revealed that it currently hosts in excess of 1 thousand million content made with AI.
Testing and Rollout
The update is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a widespread release. This advancement aligns with a surge in AI-generated material, fueled by new AI video creators.
AI Proliferation Online
Recent reports that nearly 10% of the most rapidly expanding video streams on a popular video site primarily display content made by AI. A considerable share of this output is deemed “AI slop”, a label for inferior, bulk-generated content that is often absurd or surreal.
“We know from our community that numerous viewers enjoy content produced via AI tools, including digital art to educational videos, and we intend to offer the community the ability to increase or decrease of that, based on their own likes,” stated a company executive.
Scale of AI Content
The service shared that there are now 1.3bn videos on its service labeled as AI-generated. Collectively, over 100 million videos are added to the app daily, making AI content a relatively small portion of its overall inventory.
Customizing Your Feed
Users will be able to reduce or increase the level of AI content they watch by using the content preference option in the application and picking “AI-generated content”. Additional categories that can already be modified under the setting encompass politics, clothing, beauty, and dance.
Platform Guidelines
Its policies mandate users to identify “realistic” AI-made content, and it forbids malicious deepfakes of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any believable artificial content that is not labeled can be deleted under its terms of service.
Furthermore, the service will now attach an AI-generated label to content created with its own AI tools, or identified by an cross-platform project for recognizing content made by AI. This measure is designed to stop users from attempting to circumvent the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
The company is additionally introducing a $2m awareness program for professionals and organizations to develop learning resources about responsible artificial intelligence. This initiative will assist educational bodies dedicated to teaching programming and robotics.
Moderation Strategy
TikTok has justified its content review process, during discussion over proposals to cut jobs for a large number of content moderators in Britain. It is planning to cut hundreds of positions in its content moderation division in London, with trade unions and online safety experts raising concerns that humans are being replaced by AI moderation.
A trust and safety lead clarified that human moderation would continue to be important, but automated tools can safeguard staff by eliminating the most distressing content prior to it gets reviewed by humans. The platform reported a 76% decrease in explicit and harmful content reviewed by content reviewers over the previous year due to intervention by its automated systems.
“We think that it’s essential to combine people and machines to ensure user safety,” she said. “We’ll have staff as integral to the approach, but we further consider it’s highly necessary to minimize viewing of unsafe media as rapidly, which is where a lot of the machine support is really helping us operate efficiently.”
