Users will soon have a new feature that allows them to cut down on the volume of AI-created videos appearing in their timelines. This move comes as the company revealed that it now features more than 1 billion content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
The new functionality is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a global release. This advancement aligns with a rise in AI content, spurred by emerging content generation software.
AI Proliferation Online
Recent reports that approximately one in 10 of the fastest-growing content creators on a competing service primarily display content made by AI. A considerable share of this content is considered “AI slop”, a label for substandard, factory-style content that is often absurd or bizarre.
Our research shows that numerous viewers enjoy content created using AI tools, from AI artwork to informative clips, and we aim to offer the community the ability to increase or decrease of that, according to their own preferences,” commented a spokesperson.
Volume and Proportions
The platform announced that there are currently 1.3 billion videos on its network labeled as artificially created. Collectively, more than 100 mn media items are submitted to the app daily, making clips made by AI a limited part of its total content library.
User Control Features
Members will be able to limit or boost the volume of AI content they view by opening the topic control feature in the platform and choosing the AI content topic. Additional categories that are already be adjusted under the filter cover politics, clothing, beauty, and choreography.
AI Disclosure Rules
Its rules require users to label lifelike artificially created content, and it forbids harmful AI impersonations of celebrities or emergencies. Any believable AI video that is not labeled can be taken down under its user guidelines.
Additionally, the app will henceforth add an “AI-made” tag to content made using its built-in AI features, or detected by an collaborative effort for spotting AI-generated material. This measure is aimed to deter users from attempting to circumvent the disclosure requirement.
Educational Initiatives
The platform is furthermore establishing a $2m AI literacy fund for professionals and institutions to produce educational content about using AI responsibly. This initiative will support educational bodies specializing in educating computer science.
Platform Protection
TikTok has defended its safety measures, during debate over proposals to make redundant numerous review team members in the United Kingdom. TikTok is set to reduce a significant number of roles in its trust and safety division in its British office, with trade unions and internet security professionals raising concerns that people are being substituted by automated systems.
A trust and safety lead stated that staff-based oversight would still have a role, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by removing the most harmful content before it gets reviewed by humans. The platform announced a notable drop in disturbing and violent content handled by safety staff over the previous year due to the use of its machine learning processes.
“We think that it’s essential to balance humans and technology to maintain a secure environment,” the official commented. “We’ll have people as integral to the approach, but we also think it’s extremely critical to limit contact with dangerous material as rapidly, which is the area in which a significant AI assistance is really helping us process content quickly.”
