Users will soon have a new feature that permits them to reduce the volume of AI-created videos appearing in their feeds. This step comes as the service disclosed that it currently hosts more than 1 bn AI videos.
Pilot Phase and Launch
The new functionality is being tested over the coming weeks before a widespread launch. This development aligns with a increase in AI content, driven by recent content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Recent reports that approximately one in 10 of the quickest rising channels on another major platform exclusively feature AI-generated videos. A considerable share of this material is classified as “AI slop”, a label for poor-quality, mass-produced content that is often absurd or bizarre.
Based on user feedback that many people like content created using AI tools, including digital art to informative clips, and we aim to offer the community the ability to see more or less of that, based on their own likes,” said a company executive.
Scale of AI Content
TikTok disclosed that there are presently 1.3 billion videos on its app labeled as made with AI. Collectively, over 100 million videos are added to the platform each day, making AI content a relatively small part of its complete catalog.
User Control Features
Viewers will be in a position to decrease or raise the volume of AI content they view by opening the “manage topic” feature in the application and picking the AI content topic. Further subjects that currently be controlled under the setting include news, style, aesthetics, and movement.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s guidelines oblige creators to identify lifelike artificially created content, and it bans harmful fake videos of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be taken down under its community policies.
In addition, the app will from now on apply an AI-generated tag to content made using its built-in AI features, or identified by an cross-platform project for recognizing AI-generated material. This measure is designed to deter users from attempting to evade the labeling process.
Educational Initiatives
The platform is furthermore launching a two million dollar AI literacy fund for specialists and organizations to create educational content about ethical AI use. This program will support educational bodies specializing in educating programming and robotics.
Content Safety Approach
The video-sharing app has defended its content review process, amid discussion over plans to make redundant hundreds of content moderators in the UK. It is planning to eliminate hundreds of positions in its trust and safety team in the UK capital, with worker representatives and online safety experts voicing alarm that humans are being replaced by machine-led review.
A senior executive stated that staff-based oversight would remain essential, but artificial intelligence can protect employees by removing the most graphic content ahead of it is viewed by humans. The platform reported a significant reduction in shocking and graphic content seen by content reviewers over the past year due to the use of its machine learning processes.
We believe it is crucial to integrate humans and technology to ensure user safety,” she said. “We’ll have staff as part of that process, but we also think it’s highly necessary to limit contact with harmful content as swiftly, which is why a lot of the machine support is proving valuable work at speed.”
