Users will soon have a new feature that enables them to reduce the quantity of AI-made videos appearing in their feeds. This move comes as the platform revealed that it now features over 1 billion AI videos.
Trial and Implementation
The new functionality is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a global release. This advancement comes amid a increase in content created by AI, fueled by recent video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that approximately one in 10 of the quickest rising content creators on another major platform primarily display AI-generated videos. A significant portion of this material is deemed “AI slop”, a label for poor-quality, factory-style content that is often absurd or dreamlike.
Our research shows that many people enjoy content created using AI tools, ranging from computer-generated images to science explainers, and we intend to give people the option to adjust the amount of that, according to their own preferences,” stated a spokesperson.
Scale of AI Content
The service shared that there are now 1.3 billion videos on its service identified as made with AI. In total, more than 100 mn media items are submitted to the platform every day, making clips made by AI a limited percentage of its total content library.
How to Adjust Settings
Viewers will be able to decrease or raise the amount of AI content they see by using the content preference setting in the app and selecting the AI content topic. Other topics that are already be controlled under the setting encompass news, clothing, aesthetics, and movement.
Content Labeling and Policies
Its policies require content makers to tag lifelike artificially created content, and it bans dangerous AI impersonations of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any authentic-looking AI video that is without a tag can be deleted under its community policies.
In addition, the app will now add an artificially created tag to content created with its proprietary AI systems, or identified by an cross-platform project for recognizing content made by AI. This measure is aimed to deter users from attempting to bypass the labeling process.
Responsible AI Funding
The platform is furthermore establishing a $2 million AI literacy fund for experts and organizations to develop informative material about using AI responsibly. This project will benefit educational bodies focused on educating programming and robotics.
Content Safety Approach
TikTok has supported its content review process, during discussion over proposals to cut jobs for hundreds of safety staff in the UK. The company is set to reduce hundreds of positions in its content moderation team in the UK capital, with worker representatives and online safety experts raising concerns that humans are being replaced by AI moderation.
A senior executive stated that human moderation would continue to be important, but automated tools can protect employees by removing the most harmful content before it is viewed by humans. The platform announced a 76% decrease in explicit and harmful content seen by safety staff over the previous year due to the use of its AI tools.
We believe it is crucial to integrate humans and technology to keep the platform safe,” the executive stated. “We’ll have humans as part of that process, but we additionally believe it’s extremely critical to minimize viewing of harmful content as swiftly, which is why a extensive automated help is really helping us operate efficiently.”
