Users will soon have a updated setting that enables them to reduce the quantity of artificial intelligence-produced videos appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the company disclosed that it currently hosts more than 1 billion AI videos.
Trial and Implementation
The new functionality is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a global rollout. This development aligns with a surge in content created by AI, spurred by emerging video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that approximately a tenth of the most rapidly expanding video streams on a popular video site only show content made by AI. A significant portion of this material is classified as mass-produced AI material, a label for substandard, factory-style content that is typically nonsensical or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that a lot of users appreciate content produced via AI tools, from computer-generated images to science explainers, and we want to give people the option to adjust the amount of that, according to their own likes,” commented a platform representative.
AI on the Platform
The platform announced that there are now over a billion videos on its service labeled as artificially created. In total, in excess of 100 million media items are added to the platform every day, making AI-generated material a relatively small portion of its overall inventory.
Customizing Your Feed
Users will be capable of decrease or raise the level of AI content they see by accessing the “manage topic” option in the platform and picking AI-made media. Other topics that currently be adjusted under the setting encompass news, clothing, cosmetics, and movement.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s rules require content makers to tag lifelike artificially created content, and it bans harmful deepfakes of public figures or crisis events. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is not labeled can be removed under its community policies.
Additionally, the platform will henceforth apply an “AI-made” label to content made using its own AI tools, or flagged by an industry-wide initiative for identifying content made by AI. This step is intended to stop users from seeking to evade the disclosure requirement.
AI Literacy Programs
The company is additionally establishing a two million dollar AI literacy fund for specialists and organizations to develop educational content about using AI responsibly. This initiative will assist non-profit groups focused on training programming and robotics.
Content Safety Approach
TikTok has defended its safety measures, amid controversy over proposals to make redundant numerous content moderators in the United Kingdom. TikTok is set to cut 439 jobs in its trust and safety department in the UK capital, with trade unions and online safety experts raising concerns that people are being substituted by automated systems.
A trust and safety lead explained that staff-based oversight would remain essential, but AI can safeguard staff by eliminating the most graphic content prior to it gets reviewed by people. The company reported a notable drop in explicit and harmful content seen by safety staff over the last 12 months due to the use of its machine learning processes.
“We think that it’s essential to combine humans and technology to keep the platform safe,” the executive stated. “We’ll have people as part of that process, but we further consider it’s highly necessary to reduce exposure to harmful content as swiftly, which is the area in which a lot of the machine support is making a difference work at speed.”
