🔗 Share this article

Users will soon have a new feature that permits them to lessen the volume of AI-created media appearing in their timelines. This initiative comes as the company announced that it currently hosts over 1 thousand million AI videos.

Pilot Phase and Launch

The update is undergoing trials over the next few weeks before a widespread rollout. This development comes amid a rise in content created by AI, fueled by emerging video-generation tools.

AI Content on Other Platforms

It has been noted that almost one in 10 of the most rapidly expanding channels on a competing service exclusively feature content made by AI. A considerable share of this content is considered “AI slop”, a label for substandard, bulk-generated content that is frequently illogical or dreamlike.

Our research shows that a lot of users appreciate content created using AI tools, including digital art to informative clips, and we intend to provide users the ability to adjust the amount of that, according to their own preferences,” commented a company executive.

Scale of AI Content

The service shared that there are currently 1.3 billion videos on its service tagged as AI-generated. Collectively, more than 100 million pieces of content are uploaded to the app every day, making AI content a relatively small portion of its total content library.

How to Adjust Settings

Viewers will be able to reduce or increase the amount of AI content they see by accessing the “manage topic” setting in the app and picking AI-made media. Additional categories that are already be controlled under the filter include current affairs, fashion, cosmetics, and dance.

Platform Guidelines

TikTok’s policies mandate creators to tag lifelike artificially created content, and it forbids dangerous fake videos of public figures or critical incidents. Any believable AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be deleted under its community policies.

Furthermore, the platform will now add an artificially created label to content created with its proprietary AI systems, or identified by an cross-platform project for recognizing artificial media. This measure is intended to stop users from trying to circumvent the disclosure requirement.

Educational Initiatives

TikTok is additionally launching a two million dollar AI literacy fund for specialists and groups to develop learning resources about responsible artificial intelligence. This initiative will support non-profit groups dedicated to educating programming and robotics.

Moderation Strategy

The platform has supported its safety measures, during discussion over plans to make redundant a large number of review team members in the UK. It is planning to cut 439 jobs in its content moderation team in the UK capital, with labor groups and online safety experts expressing worry that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.

A trust and safety lead explained that staff-based oversight would continue to be important, but artificial intelligence can protect employees by eliminating the most graphic content before it is viewed by staff. The company announced a notable drop in disturbing and violent content seen by human moderators over the past year due to intervention by its AI tools.

We believe it is crucial to combine staff and AI to keep the platform safe,” the executive stated. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s extremely critical to limit contact with dangerous material as quickly as possible, which is why a lot of the machine support is really helping us work at speed.”