Users will soon have a updated setting that enables them to reduce the quantity of artificial intelligence-produced videos appearing in their streams. This move comes as the company revealed that it now features in excess of 1 thousand million AI videos.
Trial and Implementation
This change is undergoing trials over the next few weeks before a full-scale release. This advancement coincides with a increase in content created by AI, fueled by new content generation software.
The Broader AI Trend
It has been noted that almost a tenth of the most rapidly expanding content creators on a popular video site only show content made by AI. A large amount of this output is classified as low-quality AI content, a label for inferior, bulk-generated content that is typically illogical or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that many people appreciate content produced via AI tools, ranging from digital art to science explainers, and we want to give people the ability to see more or less of that, according to their own choices,” commented a platform representative.
Volume and Proportions
The platform disclosed that there are now 1.3bn videos on its service tagged as made with AI. In total, more than 100 m pieces of content are added to the service daily, making AI-generated material a relatively small percentage of its complete catalog.
How to Adjust Settings
Viewers will be in a position to limit or boost the amount of AI content they see by using the “manage topic” setting in the application and selecting the AI content topic. Additional categories that are already be modified under the tool include current affairs, clothing, aesthetics, and dance.
Content Labeling and Policies
The platform’s policies require creators to tag convincing AI-made content, and it bans malicious deepfakes of celebrities or emergencies. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be taken down under its user guidelines.
Additionally, the platform will now apply an AI-generated tag to content made using its proprietary AI systems, or detected by an collaborative effort for identifying artificial media. This measure is aimed to help prevent users from attempting to circumvent the disclosure requirement.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is also establishing a two million dollar AI literacy fund for experts and institutions to create educational content about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will benefit non-profit groups dedicated to training coding and technology.
Content Safety Approach
TikTok has justified its safety measures, amid debate over proposals to make redundant a large number of content moderators in Britain. It is set to reduce a significant number of roles in its content moderation department in the UK capital, with labor groups and digital protection specialists expressing worry that people are being substituted by automated systems.
A senior executive explained that people-led review would continue to be important, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by removing the most graphic content before it gets reviewed by humans. The platform stated a 76% decrease in shocking and graphic content handled by human moderators over the previous year due to intervention by its AI tools.
We believe it is crucial to balance people and machines to keep the platform safe,” she said. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s extremely critical to minimize viewing of dangerous material as quickly as possible, which is where a lot of the machine support is proving valuable work at speed.”
