Users will soon have a updated setting that enables them to reduce the volume of artificial intelligence-produced content appearing in their timelines. This step comes as the company revealed that it now features in excess of 1 bn content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
This change is being tested over the coming weeks before a global release. This advancement comes amid a rise in AI content, spurred by recent content generation software.
AI Proliferation Online
Recent reports that almost a tenth of the fastest-growing video streams on another major platform exclusively feature clips produced artificially. A considerable share of this output is considered “AI slop”, a phrase for poor-quality, factory-style content that is often illogical or surreal.
“We know from our community that many people enjoy content created using AI tools, from AI artwork to educational videos, and we intend to provide users the option to increase or decrease of that, according to their own preferences,” said a company executive.
Scale of AI Content
The service announced that there are presently 1.3 billion videos on its app identified as made with AI. In total, more than 100 mn videos are uploaded to the service each day, making AI content a minor percentage of its complete catalog.
How to Adjust Settings
Viewers will be capable of decrease or raise the level of artificial media they see by accessing the topic control setting in the app and picking the AI content topic. Further subjects that currently be adjusted under the tool include politics, fashion, beauty, and dance.
AI Disclosure Rules
Its policies oblige creators to identify lifelike artificially created content, and it bans harmful AI impersonations of public figures or emergencies. Any authentic-looking AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be removed under its community policies.
Additionally, the service will now add an “AI-made” tag to content created with its own AI tools, or detected by an cross-platform project for identifying content made by AI. This measure is designed to help prevent users from seeking to bypass the labeling process.
AI Literacy Programs
The company is furthermore launching a $2m AI literacy fund for experts and organizations to develop learning resources about ethical AI use. This initiative will assist non-profit groups specializing in training coding and technology.
Platform Protection
The platform has supported its safety measures, amid controversy over intentions to make redundant hundreds of content moderators in Britain. TikTok is expected to cut hundreds of positions in its user protection division in London, with worker representatives and online safety experts raising concerns that humans are being replaced by automated systems.
A senior executive stated that people-led review would still have a role, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by eliminating the most distressing content prior to it is viewed by people. TikTok reported a 76% decrease in shocking and graphic content seen by safety staff over the last 12 months due to reliance on its machine learning processes.
“We think that it’s essential to integrate humans and technology to keep the platform safe,” the official commented. “We’ll have people as integral to the approach, but we additionally believe it’s extremely critical to minimize viewing of harmful content as rapidly, which is the area in which a lot of the machine support is proving valuable operate efficiently.”
