TikTok is introducing a new feature that allows them to lessen the volume of AI-made videos appearing in their feeds. This initiative comes as the service announced that it presently contains over 1 billion AI-generated clips.
Trial and Implementation
The new functionality is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a full-scale rollout. This development aligns with a increase in content created by AI, fueled by emerging content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that almost one in 10 of the fastest-growing content creators on a competing service primarily display content made by AI. A considerable share of this output is considered “AI slop”, a term for substandard, factory-style content that is often absurd or bizarre.
Our research shows that numerous viewers like content made with AI tools, ranging from AI artwork to educational videos, and we want to provide users the ability to see more or less of that, depending on their own choices,” stated a spokesperson.
Scale of AI Content
The service announced that there are now over a billion videos on its app identified as artificially created. In total, over 100 mn pieces of content are uploaded to the app each day, making clips made by AI a minor part of its total content library.
User Control Features
Members will be able to decrease or raise the level of artificial media they watch by accessing the topic control setting in the platform and selecting AI-made media. Further subjects that are already be controlled under the tool encompass politics, fashion, aesthetics, and choreography.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s guidelines mandate creators to label lifelike AI-generated content, and it forbids harmful fake videos of celebrities or emergencies. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is unmarked can be deleted under its community policies.
Additionally, the platform will henceforth apply an “AI-made” tag to content created with its built-in AI features, or identified by an collaborative effort for recognizing AI-generated material. This action is aimed to help prevent users from trying to circumvent the labeling process.
AI Literacy Programs
The company is furthermore introducing a two million dollar awareness program for experts and organizations to produce learning resources about using AI responsibly. This initiative will support charitable organizations focused on educating programming and robotics.
Moderation Strategy
The platform has supported its content review process, following controversy over plans to make redundant hundreds of content moderators in the UK. It is expected to cut a significant number of roles in its user protection department in the UK capital, with worker representatives and digital protection specialists raising concerns that humans are being replaced by automated systems.
A senior executive stated that human moderation would still have a role, but artificial intelligence can protect employees by removing the most graphic content ahead of it gets reviewed by humans. The company announced a significant reduction in shocking and graphic content seen by human moderators over the past year due to the use of its machine learning processes.
We believe it is crucial to combine people and machines to ensure user safety,” she said. “We’ll have staff as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s very important to reduce exposure to dangerous material as swiftly, which is where a extensive automated help is making a difference operate efficiently.”
