The platform is rolling out a fresh option that allows them to reduce the quantity of AI-made content appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the platform disclosed that it now features over 1 billion content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
This change is in a pilot phase over the next few weeks before a full-scale release. This development aligns with a rise in AI-generated material, fueled by emerging AI video creators.
The Broader AI Trend
It has been noted that almost a tenth of the most rapidly expanding video streams on a competing service exclusively feature content made by AI. A significant portion of this output is considered low-quality AI content, a label for substandard, mass-produced content that is frequently illogical or dreamlike.
Based on user feedback that a lot of users like content made with AI tools, ranging from computer-generated images to informative clips, and we aim to offer the community the option to increase or decrease of that, according to their own preferences,” stated a platform representative.
AI on the Platform
TikTok disclosed that there are now 1.3 billion videos on its service tagged as AI-generated. In total, over 100 million media items are added to the platform each day, making AI content a limited portion of its total content library.
Customizing Your Feed
Users will be in a position to limit or boost the amount of AI-generated videos they view by opening the “manage topic” option in the platform and picking the AI content topic. Additional categories that can already be adjusted under the tool cover news, fashion, beauty, and choreography.
Content Labeling and Policies
Its guidelines oblige creators to tag lifelike artificially created content, and it prohibits harmful AI impersonations of public figures or crisis events. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be removed under its community policies.
Furthermore, the platform will henceforth add an “AI-made” tag to content made using its built-in AI features, or identified by an cross-platform project for identifying AI-generated material. This measure is aimed to deter users from seeking to evade the tagging system.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is additionally introducing a $2 million AI literacy fund for specialists and organizations to produce educational content about using AI responsibly. This program will support educational bodies dedicated to training programming and robotics.
Content Safety Approach
TikTok has justified its safety measures, following debate over proposals to lay off a large number of safety staff in the UK. The company is expected to reduce a significant number of roles in its user protection team in the UK capital, with worker representatives and digital protection specialists voicing alarm that humans are being replaced by AI moderation.
A senior executive stated that human moderation would continue to be important, but automated tools can safeguard staff by eliminating the most graphic content ahead of it is viewed by people. TikTok stated a notable drop in disturbing and violent content reviewed by human moderators over the previous year due to reliance on its machine learning processes.
We believe it is crucial to balance humans and technology to keep the platform safe,” the executive stated. “We’ll have people as part of that process, but we also think it’s extremely critical to minimize viewing of harmful content as quickly as possible, which is the area in which a significant AI assistance is proving valuable work at speed.”
