Users will soon have a new feature that permits them to lessen the amount of AI-made videos appearing in their streams. This step comes as the platform disclosed that it currently hosts over 1 billion AI videos.
Pilot Phase and Launch
This change is being tested over the coming weeks before a full-scale launch. This shift coincides with a rise in AI-generated material, spurred by recent video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that nearly 10% of the most rapidly expanding channels on a competing service primarily display clips produced artificially. A considerable share of this output is deemed mass-produced AI material, a term for substandard, mass-produced content that is frequently absurd or dreamlike.
Based on user feedback that many people appreciate content made with 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 1.3bn videos on its network tagged as artificially created. Collectively, more than 100 million videos are uploaded to the app every day, making clips made by AI a relatively small portion of its overall inventory.
How to Adjust Settings
Users will be in a position to decrease or raise the amount of AI-generated videos they view by accessing the “manage topic” feature in the application and selecting the AI content topic. Other topics that are already be adjusted under the tool encompass current affairs, fashion, aesthetics, and dance.
Content Labeling and Policies
TikTok’s policies require content makers to tag lifelike AI-made content, and it bans dangerous AI impersonations of well-known individuals or critical incidents. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be taken down under its community policies.
Additionally, the platform will henceforth apply an AI-generated watermark to content produced via its proprietary AI systems, or identified by an industry-wide initiative for recognizing content made by AI. This step is intended to deter users from attempting to bypass the disclosure requirement.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is also launching a two million dollar awareness program for experts and groups to develop informative material about using AI responsibly. This project will support educational bodies specializing in training coding and technology.
Content Safety Approach
TikTok has defended its content review process, amid discussion over plans to make redundant numerous safety staff in Britain. The company is set to eliminate hundreds of positions in its user protection department in the UK capital, with labor groups and online safety experts raising concerns that humans are being replaced by machine-led review.
A company official stated that human moderation would still have a role, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by filtering out the most distressing content before it has to be seen by humans. The company reported a 76% decrease in explicit and harmful content reviewed by safety staff over the last 12 months due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
It is vital to combine staff and AI to ensure user safety,” the executive stated. “We’ll have humans as integral to the approach, but we further consider it’s highly necessary to minimize viewing of unsafe media as quickly as possible, which is the area in which a significant AI assistance is making a difference work at speed.”
