Users will soon have a new feature that enables them to reduce the quantity of AI-created media appearing in their timelines. This initiative comes as the company revealed that it currently hosts in excess of 1 thousand million AI-generated clips.
Testing and Rollout
The new functionality is in a pilot phase over the next few weeks before a global rollout. This advancement aligns with a rise in AI content, fueled by new video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that approximately 10% of the most rapidly expanding video streams on another major platform exclusively feature content made by AI. A large amount of this material is classified as “AI slop”, a phrase for inferior, factory-style content that is often illogical or surreal.
Our research shows that a lot of users appreciate content produced via AI tools, ranging from digital art to educational videos, and we aim to give people the power to see more or less of that, depending on their own preferences,” stated a platform representative.
Scale of AI Content
The service announced that there are currently 1.3bn videos on its app labeled as artificially created. In total, over 100 mn pieces of content are uploaded to the platform each day, making AI content a limited part of its complete catalog.
User Control Features
Users will be in a position to limit or boost the volume of artificial media they view by opening the “manage topic” option in the app and selecting AI-made media. Further subjects that currently be modified under the setting cover current affairs, style, aesthetics, and dance.
Platform Guidelines
TikTok’s policies oblige creators to tag lifelike artificially created content, and it bans harmful AI impersonations of well-known individuals or critical incidents. Any authentic-looking artificial content that is not labeled can be taken down under its terms of service.
Additionally, the service will from now on attach an “AI-made” tag to content made using its proprietary AI systems, or identified by an collaborative effort for spotting artificial media. This step is designed to help prevent users from trying to bypass the disclosure requirement.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is also launching a two million dollar AI literacy fund for professionals and institutions to develop educational content about ethical AI use. This program will support charitable organizations dedicated to teaching programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has defended its content review process, following debate over proposals to lay off numerous review team members in Britain. It is expected to eliminate a significant number of roles in its user protection team in the UK capital, with labor groups and internet security professionals voicing alarm that humans are being replaced by machine-led review.
A senior executive explained that human moderation would remain essential, but AI can protect employees by eliminating the most harmful content ahead of it gets reviewed by people. The company reported a 76% decrease in explicit and harmful content reviewed by human moderators over the last 12 months due to reliance on its AI tools.
We believe it is crucial to combine staff and AI to ensure user safety,” she said. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we also think it’s very important to minimize viewing of harmful content as swiftly, which is the area in which a extensive automated help is proving valuable process content quickly.”
