Users will soon have a new feature that enables them to cut down on the volume of AI-created videos appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the company announced that it now features in excess of 1 thousand million AI videos.
Pilot Phase and Launch
The update is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a global release. This advancement comes amid a rise in content created by AI, driven by recent AI video creators.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Studies have shown that nearly one in 10 of the most rapidly expanding channels on a competing service primarily display AI-generated videos. A significant portion of this material is classified as “AI slop”, a phrase for substandard, bulk-generated content that is often absurd or surreal.
Our research shows that numerous viewers enjoy content produced via AI tools, including AI artwork to educational videos, and we want to provide users the option to increase or decrease of that, depending on their own likes,” stated a spokesperson.
Volume and Proportions
The platform shared that there are currently 1.3bn videos on its network labeled as AI-generated. Overall, over 100 million videos are submitted to the app daily, making clips made by AI a limited percentage of its total content library.
User Control Features
Viewers will be capable of decrease or raise the level of AI-generated videos they view by using the content preference option in the application and picking AI-made media. Other topics that are already be adjusted under the filter encompass news, clothing, aesthetics, and dance.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s rules mandate users to identify “realistic” AI-generated content, and it prohibits malicious fake videos of public figures or crisis events. Any realistic artificial content that is unmarked can be taken down under its community policies.
Additionally, the app will from now on add an artificially created label to content produced via its built-in AI features, or flagged by an collaborative effort for spotting content made by AI. This step is intended to help prevent users from trying to circumvent the tagging system.
Responsible AI Funding
The platform is also establishing a $2 million awareness program for professionals and institutions to produce informative material about using AI responsibly. This initiative will benefit educational bodies specializing in teaching computer science.
Moderation Strategy
The video-sharing app has defended its safety measures, amid debate over intentions to cut jobs for a large number of content moderators in the United Kingdom. TikTok is set to eliminate a significant number of roles in its content moderation team in its British office, with trade unions and online safety experts raising concerns that people are being substituted by automated systems.
A senior executive explained that human moderation would still have a role, but automated tools can shield workers by removing the most graphic content prior to it has to be seen by humans. The company reported a 76% decrease in disturbing and violent content handled by safety staff over the past year due to the use of its machine learning processes.
“We think that it’s essential to balance humans and technology to keep the platform safe,” the official commented. “We’ll have staff as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s highly necessary to minimize viewing of harmful content as rapidly, which is where a lot of the machine support is making a difference work at speed.”
