TikTok is introducing a new feature that enables them to reduce the volume of artificial intelligence-produced media appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the service revealed that it currently hosts in excess of 1 bn AI-generated clips.
Testing and Rollout
The new functionality is being tested over the coming weeks before a global launch. This development comes amid a increase in AI content, spurred by emerging AI video creators.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that approximately a tenth of the fastest-growing channels on a competing service exclusively feature clips produced artificially. A large amount of this material is classified as “AI slop”, a phrase for substandard, factory-style content that is typically absurd or bizarre.
“We know from our community that a lot of users appreciate content created using AI tools, including digital art to educational videos, and we intend to provide users the option to see more or less of that, according to their own choices,” stated a spokesperson.
Scale of AI Content
The service announced that there are presently 1.3 billion videos on its service identified as artificially created. Collectively, more than 100 million videos are added to the app every day, making AI-generated material a relatively small part of its overall inventory.
How to Adjust Settings
Viewers will be in a position to limit or boost the level of artificial media they see by using the topic control feature in the app and picking “AI-generated content”. Other topics that can already be adjusted under the filter cover current affairs, clothing, beauty, and dance.
AI Disclosure Rules
TikTok’s policies oblige content makers to identify convincing artificially created content, and it bans harmful deepfakes of well-known individuals or critical incidents. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be taken down under its community policies.
Furthermore, the service will now add an artificially created tag to content produced via its proprietary AI systems, or detected by an collaborative effort for spotting AI-generated material. This measure is intended to deter users from seeking to bypass the labeling process.
Educational Initiatives
TikTok is furthermore launching a two million dollar awareness program for experts and groups to produce educational content about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will support charitable organizations focused on educating programming and robotics.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has defended its safety measures, amid controversy over intentions to make redundant numerous content moderators in the United Kingdom. It is planning to eliminate a significant number of roles in its trust and safety department in its British office, with labor groups and online safety experts raising concerns that humans are being replaced by automated systems.
A senior executive stated that staff-based oversight would still have a role, but AI can safeguard staff by removing the most harmful content prior to it gets reviewed by people. The platform stated a significant reduction in shocking and graphic content seen by human moderators over the last 12 months due to the use of its machine learning processes.
We believe it is crucial to integrate staff and AI to ensure user safety,” the official commented. “We’ll have humans as part of that process, but we additionally believe it’s highly necessary to minimize viewing of dangerous material as swiftly, which is why a lot of the machine support is really helping us work at speed.”
