Users will soon have a new feature that allows them to cut down on the quantity of AI-made media appearing in their timelines. This step comes as the company disclosed that it presently contains more than 1 thousand million AI videos.
Testing and Rollout
This change is being tested over the next few weeks before a global rollout. This shift coincides with a increase in AI content, driven by recent video-generation tools.
The Broader AI Trend
It has been noted that nearly 10% of the quickest rising channels on a competing service primarily display content made by AI. A considerable share of this output is considered low-quality AI content, a term for poor-quality, bulk-generated content that is typically absurd or surreal.
Based on user feedback that a lot of users appreciate content produced via AI tools, from computer-generated images to science explainers, and we intend to offer the community the power to adjust the amount of that, based on their own preferences,” commented a platform representative.
AI on the Platform
The platform shared that there are presently over a billion videos on its network tagged as artificially created. Collectively, more than 100 mn videos are added to the platform every day, making AI content a relatively small percentage of its overall inventory.
How to Adjust Settings
Users will be able to decrease or raise the amount of artificial media they see by opening the topic control setting in the platform and choosing “AI-generated content”. Further subjects that are already be controlled under the tool include news, clothing, aesthetics, and choreography.
AI Disclosure Rules
The platform’s policies oblige users to identify “realistic” AI-made content, and it prohibits malicious AI impersonations of well-known individuals or critical incidents. Any realistic artificial content that is without a tag can be taken down under its terms of service.
Additionally, the platform will from now on attach an AI-generated tag to content created with its proprietary AI systems, or flagged by an industry-wide initiative for identifying artificial media. This step is designed to stop users from seeking to evade the labeling process.
Educational Initiatives
The company is additionally establishing a $2 million educational fund for specialists and groups to develop learning resources about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will assist charitable organizations dedicated to training programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has supported its safety measures, following controversy over intentions to make redundant a large number 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 online safety experts expressing worry that humans are being replaced by automated systems.
A senior executive explained that people-led review would still have a role, but AI can safeguard staff by removing the most graphic content ahead of it is viewed by humans. The platform stated a significant reduction in explicit and harmful content reviewed by safety staff over the previous year due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
It is vital to integrate humans and technology to keep the platform safe,” she said. “We’ll have humans as part of that process, but we additionally believe it’s extremely critical to reduce exposure to harmful content as quickly as possible, which is the area in which a extensive automated help is really helping us operate efficiently.”
