TikTok is introducing a new feature that allows them to cut down on the quantity of artificial intelligence-produced videos appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the company announced that it currently hosts over 1 thousand million AI videos.
Trial and Implementation
This change is being tested over the next few weeks before a global launch. This shift aligns with a surge in AI content, fueled by recent content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that nearly a tenth of the most rapidly expanding content creators on another major platform primarily display AI-generated videos. A significant portion of this content is deemed “AI slop”, a label for poor-quality, factory-style content that is typically nonsensical or bizarre.
“We know from our community that numerous viewers like content produced via AI tools, including computer-generated images to informative clips, and we want to provide users the ability to adjust the amount of that, based on their own preferences,” stated a spokesperson.
Scale of AI Content
The platform shared that there are presently over a billion videos on its app labeled as made with AI. Overall, in excess of 100 million videos are uploaded to the app every day, making clips made by AI a relatively small portion of its overall inventory.
User Control Features
Users will be capable of decrease or raise the volume of AI content they view by using the content preference option in the app and selecting AI-made media. Further subjects that can already be adjusted under the filter cover politics, fashion, beauty, and choreography.
Content Labeling and Policies
Its policies require content makers to label “realistic” AI-made content, and it bans malicious fake videos of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be taken down under its user guidelines.
Additionally, the platform will henceforth apply an artificially created label to content produced via its built-in AI features, or identified by an collaborative effort for identifying artificial media. This action is aimed to help prevent users from seeking to bypass the tagging system.
AI Literacy Programs
The platform is additionally launching a $2m educational fund for specialists and groups to develop learning resources about ethical AI use. This program will assist charitable organizations dedicated to teaching programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has defended its safety measures, during controversy over plans to make redundant numerous content moderators in the United Kingdom. The company is planning to reduce hundreds of positions in its content moderation division in its British office, with trade unions and online safety experts expressing worry that people are being substituted by machine-led review.
A senior executive clarified that people-led review would still have a role, but artificial intelligence can protect employees by eliminating the most distressing content ahead of it is viewed by humans. TikTok announced a notable drop in shocking and graphic content reviewed by human moderators over the last 12 months due to the use of its automated systems.
“We think that it’s essential to combine people and machines to keep the platform safe,” the executive stated. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we additionally believe it’s extremely critical to limit contact with unsafe media as rapidly, which is the area in which a significant AI assistance is proving valuable work at speed.”
