The platform is rolling out a new feature that allows them to reduce the volume of AI-created media appearing in their streams. This step comes as the company disclosed that it now features more than 1 thousand million AI videos.
Pilot Phase and Launch
This change is in a pilot phase over the following weeks before a widespread rollout. This advancement comes amid a rise in content created by AI, fueled by new content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that almost one in 10 of the most rapidly expanding content creators on another major platform primarily display AI-generated videos. A significant portion of this content is considered low-quality AI content, a label for inferior, factory-style content that is typically absurd or surreal.
“We know from our community that a lot of users appreciate content created using AI tools, including computer-generated images to educational videos, and we intend to offer the community the ability to adjust the amount of that, depending on their own preferences,” commented a company executive.
Scale of AI Content
TikTok disclosed that there are now over a billion videos on its app identified as artificially created. In total, more than 100 million videos are submitted to the platform daily, making clips made by AI a minor percentage of its overall inventory.
Customizing Your Feed
Users will be capable of limit or boost the amount of artificial media they view by using the topic control option in the platform and choosing the AI content topic. Other topics that are already be adjusted under the tool encompass news, fashion, cosmetics, and choreography.
AI Disclosure Rules
Its rules oblige content makers to identify lifelike AI-generated content, and it forbids dangerous AI impersonations of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any believable artificial content that is without a tag can be removed under its community policies.
Furthermore, the platform will from now on attach an AI-generated label to content created with its proprietary AI systems, or identified by an cross-platform project for spotting content made by AI. This action is designed to help prevent users from attempting to bypass the disclosure requirement.
AI Literacy Programs
TikTok is also establishing a two million dollar AI literacy fund for experts and groups to develop educational content about using AI responsibly. This project will assist non-profit groups focused on educating programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
The platform has justified its safety measures, amid controversy over plans to make redundant numerous review team members in the UK. The company is set to reduce a significant number of roles in its user protection division in London, with worker representatives and internet security professionals voicing alarm that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.
A trust and safety lead clarified that people-led review would still have a role, but AI can safeguard staff by filtering out the most harmful content prior to it has to be seen by humans. The company stated a notable drop in disturbing and violent content handled by human moderators over the last 12 months due to the use of its automated systems.
We believe it is crucial to balance humans and technology to ensure user safety,” the official commented. “We’ll have humans as part of that process, but we also think it’s very important to minimize viewing of harmful content as swiftly, which is why a extensive automated help is proving valuable process content quickly.”
