The platform is rolling out a updated setting that allows them to lessen the quantity of AI-created content appearing in their streams. This step comes as the company disclosed that it currently hosts in excess of 1 thousand million content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
The update is being tested over the next few weeks before a widespread launch. This development aligns with a increase in content created by AI, driven by recent content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that approximately one in 10 of the most rapidly expanding content creators on a popular video site only show AI-generated videos. A large amount of this output is considered “AI slop”, a label for inferior, bulk-generated content that is often illogical or surreal.
Our research shows that many people appreciate content created using AI tools, from computer-generated images to informative clips, and we intend to give people the option to see more or less of that, depending on their own likes,” said a company executive.
Scale of AI Content
TikTok disclosed that there are now 1.3bn videos on its network tagged as artificially created. In total, more than 100 m pieces of content are added to the service every day, making AI-generated material a relatively small portion of its overall inventory.
How to Adjust Settings
Users will be able to decrease or raise the level of AI content they watch by accessing the topic control feature in the application and choosing “AI-generated content”. Additional categories that can already be controlled under the setting cover politics, style, aesthetics, and choreography.
Platform Guidelines
Its guidelines require content makers to identify convincing AI-made content, and it bans harmful fake videos of celebrities or crisis events. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is unmarked can be removed under its terms of service.
In addition, the app will henceforth attach an artificially created tag to content produced via its proprietary AI systems, or detected by an cross-platform project for recognizing content made by AI. This action is aimed to help prevent users from trying to circumvent the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
The company is also launching a two million dollar awareness program for specialists and institutions to develop informative material about using AI responsibly. This initiative will benefit charitable organizations specializing in teaching computer science.
Platform Protection
TikTok has justified its content review process, amid discussion over proposals to lay off a large number of safety staff in Britain. TikTok is expected to reduce hundreds of positions in its trust and safety department in its British office, with labor groups and internet security professionals raising concerns that humans are being replaced by machine-led review.
A senior executive stated that people-led review would still have a role, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by filtering out the most harmful content ahead of it has to be seen by staff. The platform reported a notable drop in shocking and graphic content reviewed by content reviewers over the previous year due to the use of its machine learning processes.
“We think that it’s essential to combine staff and AI to keep the platform safe,” the official commented. “We’ll have staff as integral to the approach, but we further consider it’s extremely critical to reduce exposure to unsafe media as swiftly, which is the area in which a significant AI assistance is really helping us work at speed.”
