The platform is rolling out a new feature that enables them to reduce the quantity of AI-created videos appearing in their timelines. This move comes as the company disclosed that it currently hosts in excess of 1 billion content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
The update is being tested over the following weeks before a full-scale launch. This advancement aligns with a increase in AI content, spurred by new video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that nearly a tenth of the fastest-growing channels on another major platform exclusively feature content made by AI. A significant portion of this output is classified as “AI slop”, a term for poor-quality, factory-style content that is typically illogical or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that many people appreciate content made with AI tools, ranging from digital art to science explainers, and we aim to offer the community the ability to increase or decrease of that, according to their own choices,” commented a spokesperson.
Volume and Proportions
The platform disclosed that there are currently over a billion videos on its network labeled as made with AI. In total, more than 100 mn videos are submitted to the app each day, making clips made by AI a minor portion of its overall inventory.
User Control Features
Viewers will be able to decrease or raise the level of AI-generated videos they see by accessing the topic control option in the platform and choosing the AI content topic. Additional categories that currently be adjusted under the tool include politics, fashion, aesthetics, and dance.
Platform Guidelines
Its rules mandate content makers to label lifelike AI-made content, and it prohibits dangerous fake videos of well-known individuals or critical incidents. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is not labeled can be deleted under its community policies.
Additionally, the platform will now attach an AI-generated label to content created with its proprietary AI systems, or detected by an cross-platform project for recognizing artificial media. This action is aimed to deter users from attempting to bypass the disclosure requirement.
AI Literacy Programs
TikTok is additionally introducing a $2 million educational fund for experts and institutions to create learning resources about responsible artificial intelligence. This program will assist non-profit groups focused on training computer science.
Content Safety Approach
TikTok has supported its safety measures, following discussion over proposals to cut jobs for a large number of review team members in the United Kingdom. The company is set to eliminate 439 jobs in its content moderation division in London, with trade unions and digital protection specialists raising concerns that people are being substituted by AI moderation.
A company official stated that staff-based oversight would remain essential, but AI can safeguard staff by eliminating the most harmful content ahead of it has to be seen by staff. TikTok stated a notable drop in explicit and harmful content reviewed by content reviewers over the previous year due to the use of its machine learning processes.
We believe it is crucial to balance people and machines to maintain a secure environment,” the executive stated. “We’ll have humans as integral to the approach, but we additionally believe it’s highly necessary to reduce exposure to unsafe media as quickly as possible, which is why a significant AI assistance is proving valuable operate efficiently.”
