The platform is rolling out a new feature that permits them to lessen the volume of artificial intelligence-produced content appearing in their timelines. This step comes as the service disclosed that it presently contains over 1 thousand million AI-generated clips.
Testing and Rollout
The update is in a pilot phase over the next few weeks before a widespread release. This shift aligns with a rise in AI content, driven by recent video-generation tools.
The Broader AI Trend
Studies have shown that nearly one in 10 of the fastest-growing video streams on another major platform only show content made by AI. A large amount of this material is deemed “AI slop”, a label for inferior, factory-style content that is frequently illogical or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that numerous viewers appreciate content created using AI tools, from computer-generated images to science explainers, and we want to give people the ability to increase or decrease of that, based on their own likes,” said a spokesperson.
Volume and Proportions
The platform announced that there are presently 1.3 billion videos on its network tagged as artificially created. Overall, in excess of 100 mn pieces of content are uploaded to the platform every day, making clips made by AI a limited portion of its overall inventory.
Customizing Your Feed
Viewers will be capable of decrease or raise the volume of AI content they watch by opening the “manage topic” feature in the platform and selecting the AI content topic. Additional categories that can already be controlled under the setting cover current affairs, style, beauty, and movement.
AI Disclosure Rules
Its guidelines oblige content makers to identify lifelike AI-made content, and it forbids dangerous deepfakes of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any authentic-looking AI-generated clip that is not labeled can be removed under its community policies.
In addition, the service will from now on attach an “AI-made” watermark to content produced via its own AI tools, or detected by an cross-platform project for recognizing content made by AI. This measure is aimed to stop users from trying to bypass the tagging system.
AI Literacy Programs
The company is also launching a $2m AI literacy fund for experts and organizations to create learning resources about ethical AI use. This project will benefit charitable organizations specializing in training coding and technology.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has justified its moderation strategy, following discussion over plans to make redundant numerous content moderators in the United Kingdom. TikTok is set to eliminate hundreds of positions in its user protection team in the UK capital, with trade unions and internet security professionals raising concerns that humans are being replaced by AI moderation.
A company official clarified that people-led review would continue to be important, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by removing the most graphic content before it has to be seen by humans. TikTok stated a significant reduction in disturbing and violent content handled by human moderators over the last 12 months due to intervention by its AI tools.
“We think that it’s essential to combine staff and AI to ensure user safety,” the official commented. “We’ll have humans as integral to the approach, but we further consider it’s very important to limit contact with dangerous material as quickly as possible, which is the area in which a significant AI assistance is making a difference work at speed.”
