The platform is rolling out a updated setting that permits them to reduce the volume of artificial intelligence-produced content appearing in their streams. This move comes as the platform disclosed that it currently hosts in excess of 1 thousand million AI videos.
Trial and Implementation
The update is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a full-scale launch. This development comes amid a rise in AI content, spurred by emerging content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that almost 10% of the fastest-growing channels on a competing service exclusively feature clips produced artificially. A considerable share of this output is considered mass-produced AI material, a term for substandard, mass-produced content that is frequently nonsensical or surreal.
Based on user feedback that a lot of users appreciate content produced via AI tools, including computer-generated images to science explainers, and we aim to provide users the ability to see more or less of that, according to their own likes,” said a platform representative.
Scale of AI Content
TikTok announced that there are presently 1.3bn videos on its network tagged as made with AI. Overall, in excess of 100 million pieces of content are submitted to the service every day, making AI content a limited part of its total content library.
How to Adjust Settings
Users will be able to limit or boost the volume of AI-generated videos they see by accessing the “manage topic” feature in the app and selecting AI-made media. Other topics that are already be adjusted under the tool include politics, style, cosmetics, and movement.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s policies require users to tag convincing artificially created content, and it forbids dangerous fake videos of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is not labeled can be deleted under its community policies.
Furthermore, the app will henceforth attach an artificially created tag to content made using its own AI tools, or detected by an cross-platform project for identifying AI-generated material. This measure is designed to deter users from seeking to bypass the tagging system.
AI Literacy Programs
TikTok is additionally introducing a two million dollar AI literacy fund for specialists and groups to create learning resources about responsible artificial intelligence. This program will benefit non-profit groups specializing in educating programming and robotics.
Content Safety Approach
The platform has defended its safety measures, following controversy over plans to lay off hundreds of content moderators in the UK. The company is expected to eliminate hundreds of positions in its user protection department in the UK capital, with worker representatives and online safety experts expressing worry that people are being substituted by AI moderation.
A senior executive clarified that staff-based oversight would continue to be important, but automated tools can shield workers by removing the most harmful content ahead of it has to be seen by humans. TikTok reported a notable drop in disturbing and violent content handled by safety staff over the previous year due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
It is vital to integrate humans and technology to keep the platform safe,” she said. “We’ll have humans as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s highly necessary to minimize viewing of unsafe media as swiftly, which is where a lot of the machine support is really helping us work at speed.”
