Users will soon have a fresh option that permits them to lessen the volume of artificial intelligence-produced content appearing in their timelines. This initiative comes as the company announced that it presently contains more than 1 billion content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
This change is undergoing trials over the next few weeks before a global rollout. This advancement coincides with a increase in AI content, fueled by new video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Studies have shown that approximately one in 10 of the quickest rising video streams on a popular video site exclusively feature content made by AI. A considerable share of this output is classified as low-quality AI content, a term for poor-quality, mass-produced content that is frequently nonsensical or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that a lot of users enjoy content created using AI tools, ranging from computer-generated images to science explainers, and we want to offer the community the ability to see more or less of that, according to their own likes,” stated a spokesperson.
AI on the Platform
The service announced that there are presently 1.3bn videos on its network tagged as AI-generated. Collectively, more than 100 million pieces of content are uploaded to the app every day, making AI-generated material a limited percentage of its total content library.
How to Adjust Settings
Users will be able to decrease or raise the amount of AI content they watch by opening the topic control feature in the platform and picking AI-made media. Additional categories that are already be modified under the setting include politics, style, beauty, and choreography.
Platform Guidelines
TikTok’s guidelines require content makers to tag convincing AI-generated content, and it bans harmful fake videos of celebrities or critical incidents. Any believable artificial content that is not labeled can be taken down under its terms of service.
Additionally, the app will now attach an AI-generated tag to content produced via its own AI tools, or detected by an collaborative effort for spotting AI-generated material. This step is aimed to deter users from attempting to circumvent the labeling process.
AI Literacy Programs
The company is also establishing a $2m AI literacy fund for experts and organizations to create educational content about responsible artificial intelligence. This initiative will assist non-profit groups focused on training coding and technology.
Platform Protection
The platform has justified its safety measures, following debate over plans to lay off numerous review team members in the UK. It is set to cut a significant number of roles in its content moderation team in London, with labor groups and internet security professionals voicing alarm that people are being substituted by AI moderation.
A company official clarified that people-led review would still have a role, but AI can protect employees by filtering out the most harmful content before it has to be seen by staff. TikTok reported a 76% decrease in shocking and graphic content reviewed by content reviewers over the past year due to reliance on its automated systems.
“We think that it’s essential to balance staff and AI to ensure user safety,” the official commented. “We’ll have humans as part of that process, but we additionally believe it’s very important to minimize viewing of harmful content as swiftly, which is where a lot of the machine support is really helping us process content quickly.”
