The platform is rolling out a updated setting that enables them to reduce the amount of artificial intelligence-produced media appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the company revealed that it now features in excess of 1 thousand million content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
The update is being tested over the coming weeks before a full-scale release. This shift aligns with a rise in AI content, spurred by new AI video creators.
The Broader AI Trend
Studies have shown that nearly a tenth of the fastest-growing channels on another major platform primarily display AI-generated videos. A significant portion of this content is deemed “AI slop”, a phrase for poor-quality, bulk-generated content that is typically illogical or bizarre.
“We know from our community that a lot of users like content created using AI tools, from computer-generated images to science explainers, and we intend to provide users the option to see more or less of that, depending on their own choices,” commented a company executive.
Volume and Proportions
The platform announced that there are currently 1.3bn videos on its service tagged as made with AI. In total, in excess of 100 million pieces of content are uploaded to the service each day, making AI content a limited part of its complete catalog.
Customizing Your Feed
Viewers will be in a position to limit or boost the volume of AI content they watch by using the “manage topic” option in the platform and selecting “AI-generated content”. Other topics that currently be adjusted under the setting cover politics, style, beauty, and choreography.
AI Disclosure Rules
The platform’s guidelines require creators to identify “realistic” artificially created content, and it prohibits malicious AI impersonations of public figures or emergencies. Any realistic artificial content that is without a tag can be taken down under its terms of service.
Furthermore, the service will now add an “AI-made” watermark to content made using its own AI tools, or flagged by an collaborative effort for spotting content made by AI. This step is intended to help prevent users from attempting to circumvent the disclosure requirement.
AI Literacy Programs
The platform is furthermore launching a two million dollar AI literacy fund for specialists and groups to develop learning resources about using AI responsibly. This project will benefit educational bodies dedicated to teaching computer science.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has supported its moderation strategy, following debate over intentions to cut jobs for a large number of content moderators in the United Kingdom. The company is set to reduce hundreds of positions in its trust and safety team in the UK capital, with worker representatives and digital protection specialists voicing alarm that humans are being replaced by automated systems.
A company official explained that human moderation would remain essential, but AI can protect employees by filtering out the most graphic content prior to it gets reviewed by staff. TikTok announced a notable drop in disturbing and violent content handled by safety staff over the previous year due to the use of its AI tools.
It is vital to integrate staff and AI to maintain a secure environment,” the executive stated. “We’ll have staff as integral to the approach, but we additionally believe it’s very important to minimize viewing of unsafe media as rapidly, which is where a extensive automated help is proving valuable operate efficiently.”
