Users will soon have a new feature that enables them to lessen the volume of artificial intelligence-produced videos appearing in their timelines. This step comes as the service revealed that it currently hosts over 1 billion AI-generated clips.
Testing and Rollout
The new functionality is being tested over the next few weeks before a global rollout. This advancement coincides with a surge in AI-generated material, spurred by recent content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that almost one in 10 of the quickest rising channels on a competing service exclusively feature AI-generated videos. A considerable share of this material is deemed mass-produced AI material, a term for poor-quality, mass-produced content that is typically absurd or surreal.
“We know from our community that numerous viewers enjoy content produced via AI tools, from digital art to educational videos, and we aim to give people the ability to see more or less of that, according to their own choices,” stated a company executive.
Volume and Proportions
The platform shared that there are presently over a billion videos on its app labeled as AI-generated. Collectively, in excess of 100 mn videos are added to the platform daily, making AI content a minor part of its total content library.
Customizing Your Feed
Members will be able to limit or boost the level of artificial media they see by accessing the “manage topic” feature in the platform and selecting the AI content topic. Additional categories that are already be controlled under the tool include politics, style, cosmetics, and dance.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s guidelines require creators to tag lifelike artificially created content, and it prohibits malicious AI impersonations of public figures or emergencies. Any believable AI-generated clip that is unmarked can be removed under its community policies.
In addition, the service will from now on attach an “AI-made” watermark to content produced via its own AI tools, or identified by an industry-wide initiative for spotting content made by AI. This measure is designed to stop users from attempting to evade the disclosure requirement.
AI Literacy Programs
TikTok is furthermore introducing a $2m educational fund for professionals and groups to produce informative material about responsible artificial intelligence. This program will assist educational bodies focused on educating coding and technology.
Content Safety Approach
TikTok has justified its content review process, during discussion over intentions to make redundant numerous safety staff in the UK. TikTok is expected to reduce hundreds of positions in its content moderation division in London, with worker representatives and digital protection specialists expressing worry that humans are being replaced by AI moderation.
A company official explained that staff-based oversight would remain essential, but artificial intelligence can safeguard staff by eliminating the most distressing content before it has to be seen by people. The company reported a significant reduction in explicit and harmful content handled by safety staff over the last 12 months due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
“We think that it’s essential to integrate staff and AI to keep the platform safe,” the executive stated. “We’ll have staff as integral to the approach, but we also think it’s extremely critical to limit contact with harmful content as swiftly, which is where a significant AI assistance is proving valuable work at speed.”
