Users will soon have a updated setting that permits them to lessen the amount of AI-made content appearing in their streams. This step comes as the platform announced that it currently hosts more than 1 thousand million content made with AI.
Testing and Rollout
The update is being tested over the following weeks before a full-scale launch. This development comes amid a rise in AI content, driven by new video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that nearly one in 10 of the quickest rising channels on a popular video site only show clips produced artificially. A large amount of this output is classified as “AI slop”, a label for substandard, bulk-generated content that is frequently illogical or dreamlike.
Based on user feedback that numerous viewers appreciate content produced via AI tools, including AI artwork to science explainers, and we want to provide users the ability to see more or less of that, depending on their own choices,” commented a company executive.
AI on the Platform
TikTok shared that there are presently 1.3 billion videos on its app labeled as made with AI. In total, in excess of 100 mn videos are submitted to the platform daily, making AI-generated material a limited percentage of its total content library.
How to Adjust Settings
Users will be able to reduce or increase the level of AI-generated videos they watch by opening the content preference option in the application and choosing the AI content topic. Further subjects that are already be adjusted under the filter cover news, style, aesthetics, and dance.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s rules oblige creators to tag “realistic” AI-made content, and it forbids dangerous AI impersonations of public figures or crisis events. Any authentic-looking AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be deleted under its community policies.
In addition, the platform will now add an artificially created watermark to content produced via its own AI tools, or flagged by an industry-wide initiative for identifying content made by AI. This action is aimed to help prevent users from attempting to bypass the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
The platform is furthermore launching a two million dollar AI literacy fund for professionals and groups to develop learning resources about ethical AI use. This project will support charitable organizations focused on educating computer science.
Content Safety Approach
The platform has defended its safety measures, during controversy over intentions to lay off hundreds of safety staff in the UK. TikTok is planning to reduce a significant number of roles in its user protection division in the UK capital, with trade unions and digital protection specialists raising concerns that people are being substituted by automated systems.
A company official explained that human moderation would still have a role, but AI can shield workers by removing the most harmful content prior to it is viewed by humans. The platform stated a 76% decrease in explicit and harmful content seen by safety staff over the previous year due to intervention by its AI tools.
“We think that it’s essential to integrate staff and AI to keep the platform safe,” the official commented. “We’ll have staff as involved in the system, but we additionally believe it’s extremely critical to minimize viewing of harmful content as rapidly, which is why a lot of the machine support is proving valuable work at speed.”
