TikTok is introducing a new feature that permits them to lessen the volume of AI-created content appearing in their timelines. This step comes as the company disclosed that it presently contains more than 1 bn AI videos.
Pilot Phase and Launch
The new functionality is being tested over the coming weeks before a widespread launch. This advancement aligns with a surge in AI-generated material, fueled by new content generation software.
The Broader AI Trend
It has been noted that approximately one in 10 of the quickest rising content creators on a competing service exclusively feature AI-generated videos. A significant portion of this content is deemed low-quality AI content, a term for poor-quality, factory-style content that is frequently absurd or surreal.
Our research shows that a lot of users appreciate content made with AI tools, ranging from AI artwork to educational videos, and we intend to offer the community the ability to increase or decrease of that, based on their own preferences,” commented a platform representative.
Volume and Proportions
TikTok shared that there are presently over a billion videos on its network identified as AI-generated. Overall, more than 100 m pieces of content are uploaded to the service each day, making AI content a limited percentage of its overall inventory.
Customizing Your Feed
Members will be in a position to limit or boost the amount of AI content they watch by opening the topic control option in the platform and selecting the AI content topic. Further subjects that can already be modified under the tool include current affairs, clothing, aesthetics, and dance.
AI Disclosure Rules
TikTok’s policies require users to tag “realistic” AI-generated content, and it forbids malicious AI impersonations of celebrities or crisis events. Any realistic artificial content that is not labeled can be deleted under its community policies.
Additionally, the service will from now on apply an AI-generated tag to content created with its own AI tools, or identified by an cross-platform project for recognizing artificial media. This step is designed to help prevent users from attempting to evade the tagging system.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is also launching a two million dollar awareness program for specialists and groups to create learning resources about using AI responsibly. This program will benefit educational bodies dedicated to training programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
TikTok has justified its moderation strategy, amid debate over proposals to make redundant numerous content moderators in the United Kingdom. It is planning to eliminate hundreds of positions in its trust and safety department in London, with labor groups and digital protection specialists expressing worry that people are being substituted by automated systems.
A company official clarified that staff-based oversight would remain essential, but AI can protect employees by eliminating the most distressing content prior to it has to be seen by humans. The company reported a notable drop in disturbing and violent content handled by safety staff over the previous year due to the use of its machine learning processes.
We believe it is crucial to combine humans and technology to ensure user safety,” she said. “We’ll have humans as involved in the system, but we also think it’s very important to reduce exposure to unsafe media as rapidly, which is the area in which a significant AI assistance is proving valuable operate efficiently.”
