Users will soon have a new feature that allows them to lessen the quantity of artificial intelligence-produced content appearing in their feeds. This step comes as the company disclosed that it currently hosts in excess of 1 billion AI videos.
Pilot Phase and Launch
The new functionality is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a full-scale launch. This shift aligns with a surge in AI content, spurred by recent video-generation tools.
AI Proliferation Online
It has been noted that approximately 10% of the fastest-growing content creators on another major platform exclusively feature AI-generated videos. A considerable share of this content is classified as “AI slop”, a phrase for poor-quality, factory-style content that is often absurd or bizarre.
Based on user feedback that many people enjoy content produced via AI tools, including digital art to informative clips, and we intend to offer the community the option to increase or decrease of that, based on their own choices,” said a spokesperson.
AI on the Platform
The service shared that there are currently over a billion videos on its app labeled as made with AI. Collectively, more than 100 mn pieces of content are uploaded to the app daily, making clips made by AI a relatively small percentage of its complete catalog.
How to Adjust Settings
Users will be able to limit or boost the amount of AI-generated videos they view by accessing the topic control setting in the platform and picking “AI-generated content”. Further subjects that currently be adjusted under the filter cover politics, fashion, cosmetics, and dance.
AI Disclosure Rules
TikTok’s guidelines oblige creators to label convincing AI-generated content, and it prohibits harmful AI impersonations of celebrities or crisis events. Any believable AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be deleted under its community policies.
Additionally, the platform will from now on add an “AI-made” watermark to content made using its built-in AI features, or detected by an collaborative effort for identifying content made by AI. This step is designed to stop users from trying to evade the tagging system.
Responsible AI Funding
TikTok is furthermore launching a $2m AI literacy fund for specialists and organizations to produce educational content about ethical AI use. This project will support charitable organizations focused on teaching programming and robotics.
Moderation Strategy
TikTok has supported its content review process, during debate over intentions to make redundant numerous review team members in Britain. TikTok is expected to reduce a significant number of roles in its user protection department in the UK capital, with labor groups and internet security professionals expressing worry that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.
A senior executive explained that people-led review would still have a role, but automated tools can safeguard staff by eliminating the most harmful content before it has to be seen by staff. The company stated a significant reduction in explicit and harmful content seen by content reviewers over the past year due to the use of its automated systems.
We believe it is crucial to balance humans and technology to maintain a secure environment,” she said. “We’ll have humans as part of that process, but we additionally believe it’s very important to limit contact with dangerous material as quickly as possible, which is where a significant AI assistance is really helping us operate efficiently.”
