Users will soon have a new feature that permits them to reduce the amount of AI-created media appearing in their streams. This move comes as the service revealed that it currently hosts in excess of 1 bn AI videos.
Trial and Implementation
The update is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a widespread rollout. This advancement coincides with a increase in AI content, spurred by emerging content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that nearly a tenth of the most rapidly expanding channels on a competing service exclusively feature clips produced artificially. A large amount of this content is deemed low-quality AI content, a label for poor-quality, mass-produced content that is often illogical or bizarre.
Based on user feedback that a lot of users enjoy content made with AI tools, from AI artwork to informative clips, and we aim to offer the community the ability to adjust the amount of that, according to their own likes,” said a company executive.
AI on the Platform
The platform disclosed that there are now 1.3 billion videos on its service tagged as artificially created. Collectively, over 100 million media items are added to the service each day, making clips made by AI a relatively small portion of its overall inventory.
Customizing Your Feed
Members will be in a position to decrease or raise the level of AI-generated videos they watch by opening the topic control setting in the app and selecting AI-made media. Other topics that are already be adjusted under the setting cover politics, clothing, aesthetics, and choreography.
Content Labeling and Policies
The platform’s policies oblige content makers to identify lifelike AI-generated content, and it bans malicious AI impersonations of celebrities or critical incidents. Any believable AI video that is unmarked can be removed under its terms of service.
Furthermore, the service will now attach an AI-generated label to content produced via its own AI tools, or identified by an cross-platform project for identifying content made by AI. This step is designed to stop users from seeking to evade the disclosure requirement.
Educational Initiatives
The company is additionally launching a $2 million awareness program for professionals and organizations to develop educational content about using AI responsibly. This program will benefit educational bodies focused on teaching computer science.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has defended its safety measures, amid controversy over intentions to lay off a large number of content moderators in the UK. It is set to eliminate a significant number of roles in its user protection division in its British office, with worker representatives and online safety experts raising concerns that people are being substituted by machine-led review.
A trust and safety lead stated that human moderation would still have a role, but artificial intelligence can safeguard staff by filtering out the most harmful content prior to it is viewed by staff. TikTok stated a 76% decrease in disturbing and violent content seen by content reviewers over the last 12 months due to reliance on its AI tools.
We believe it is crucial to integrate people and machines to keep the platform safe,” the official commented. “We’ll have staff as part of that process, but we additionally believe it’s highly necessary to limit contact with unsafe media as swiftly, which is the area in which a lot of the machine support is proving valuable work at speed.”
