Users will soon have a fresh option that allows them to lessen the amount of AI-made videos appearing in their streams. This move comes as the company revealed that it presently contains more than 1 bn content made with AI.
Testing and Rollout
The update is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a full-scale release. This shift coincides with a surge in AI-generated material, fueled by recent video-generation tools.
AI Proliferation Online
Recent reports that nearly one in 10 of the fastest-growing channels on a competing service only show clips produced artificially. A significant portion of this output is considered “AI slop”, a term for poor-quality, bulk-generated content that is often illogical or surreal.
“We know from our community that many people like content made with AI tools, from digital art to informative clips, and we want to give people the power to increase or decrease of that, depending on their own preferences,” stated a spokesperson.
Volume and Proportions
The service announced that there are currently over a billion videos on its app identified as made with AI. Overall, more than 100 m videos are uploaded to the platform every day, making AI-generated material a relatively small part of its complete catalog.
Customizing Your Feed
Viewers will be able to reduce or increase the level of AI-generated videos they see by using the topic control setting in the platform and choosing “AI-generated content”. Other topics that are already be controlled under the filter cover current affairs, clothing, beauty, and movement.
Content Labeling and Policies
TikTok’s rules oblige creators to label convincing AI-generated content, and it bans dangerous fake videos of well-known individuals or emergencies. Any believable AI video that is without a tag can be removed under its terms of service.
Additionally, the app will now attach an AI-generated watermark to content made using its proprietary AI systems, or flagged by an collaborative effort for identifying AI-generated material. This measure is designed to stop users from trying to bypass the labeling process.
AI Literacy Programs
The company is additionally launching a $2m educational fund for experts and institutions to develop learning resources about ethical AI use. This project will support educational bodies specializing in educating computer science.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has supported its moderation strategy, amid debate over plans to lay off hundreds of content moderators in Britain. The company is expected to eliminate hundreds of positions in its trust and safety department in the UK capital, with labor groups and digital protection specialists expressing worry that people are being substituted by machine-led review.
A company official stated that human moderation would continue to be important, but AI can shield workers by eliminating the most harmful content before it gets reviewed by humans. The platform announced a significant reduction in disturbing and violent content seen by human moderators over the past year due to reliance on its AI tools.
It is vital to balance staff and AI to keep the platform safe,” she said. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s very important to minimize viewing of dangerous material as swiftly, which is where a extensive automated help is proving valuable process content quickly.”