Users will soon have a updated setting that permits them to cut down on the amount of AI-made content appearing in their streams. This move comes as the company announced that it now features over 1 billion content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
The new functionality is undergoing trials over the next few weeks before a global release. This shift aligns with a increase in content created by AI, spurred by recent content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that approximately one in 10 of the most rapidly expanding video streams on a competing service only show content made by AI. A large amount of this content is classified as low-quality AI content, a phrase for substandard, factory-style content that is typically illogical or surreal.
Based on user feedback that many people enjoy content produced via AI tools, from AI artwork to educational videos, and we want to give people the option to see more or less of that, according to their own preferences,” commented a company executive.
AI on the Platform
The service disclosed that there are now over a billion videos on its app identified as artificially created. In total, in excess of 100 m pieces of content are submitted to the app daily, making AI-generated material a limited percentage of its overall inventory.
How to Adjust Settings
Users will be able to decrease or raise the amount of artificial media they view by using the “manage topic” feature in the application and choosing the AI content topic. Additional categories that can already be adjusted under the setting cover current affairs, fashion, cosmetics, and dance.
AI Disclosure Rules
Its guidelines mandate creators to tag convincing AI-made content, and it forbids harmful fake videos of celebrities or emergencies. Any realistic AI video that is unmarked can be taken down under its user guidelines.
Furthermore, the platform will now add an “AI-made” label to content created with its own AI tools, or detected by an industry-wide initiative for spotting artificial media. This action is aimed to deter users from seeking to circumvent the disclosure requirement.
Educational Initiatives
The company is furthermore establishing a $2m educational fund for specialists and groups to create informative material about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will benefit non-profit groups dedicated to training programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
TikTok has supported its moderation strategy, following discussion over proposals to make redundant numerous review team members in the UK. The company is planning to cut hundreds of positions in its user protection department in London, with worker representatives and internet security professionals expressing worry that people are being substituted by AI moderation.
A trust and safety lead stated that human moderation would still have a role, but AI can safeguard staff by eliminating the most harmful content prior to it gets reviewed by staff. TikTok stated a 76% decrease in explicit and harmful content handled by human moderators over the past year due to the use of its machine learning processes.
It is vital to integrate staff and AI to maintain a secure environment,” the executive stated. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s extremely critical to reduce exposure to dangerous material as quickly as possible, which is the area in which a extensive automated help is proving valuable work at speed.”
