TikTok is introducing a fresh option that permits them to reduce the quantity of AI-created videos appearing in their streams. This move comes as the company announced that it presently contains over 1 billion AI videos.
Trial and Implementation
The update is being tested over the next few weeks before a widespread rollout. This development aligns with a rise in AI content, spurred by recent video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that almost 10% of the fastest-growing video streams on a popular video site only show content made by AI. A considerable share of this content is classified as low-quality AI content, a term for poor-quality, mass-produced content that is typically illogical or dreamlike.
Based on user feedback that a lot of users enjoy content made with AI tools, from computer-generated images to science explainers, and we aim to give people the ability to increase or decrease of that, based on their own likes,” said a company executive.
AI on the Platform
The service disclosed that there are now 1.3bn videos on its app labeled as AI-generated. Overall, in excess of 100 mn media items are submitted to the app every day, making clips made by AI a limited part of its overall inventory.
User Control Features
Viewers will be able to decrease or raise the level of AI-generated videos they see by using the topic control feature in the platform and choosing the AI content topic. Additional categories that are already be adjusted under the filter encompass politics, clothing, aesthetics, and dance.
Platform Guidelines
Its guidelines require creators to identify “realistic” artificially created content, and it bans harmful deepfakes of public figures or emergencies. Any authentic-looking artificial content that is not labeled can be deleted under its user guidelines.
In addition, the service will from now on apply an artificially created watermark to content made using its built-in AI features, or flagged by an cross-platform project for identifying content made by AI. This measure is aimed to deter users from attempting to bypass the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
The platform is additionally introducing a $2m educational fund for specialists and institutions to create educational content about responsible artificial intelligence. This initiative will assist educational bodies specializing in training computer science.
Platform Protection
TikTok has defended its content review process, during debate over plans to cut jobs for numerous review team members in the UK. The company is planning to reduce a significant number of roles in its trust and safety team in the UK capital, with worker representatives and internet security professionals raising concerns that people are being substituted by automated systems.
A company official explained that staff-based oversight would continue to be important, but AI can protect employees by eliminating the most distressing content before it gets reviewed by people. The company announced a 76% decrease in disturbing and violent content seen by safety staff over the previous year due to reliance on its automated systems.
“We think that it’s essential to integrate people and machines to maintain a secure environment,” the executive stated. “We’ll have humans as part of that process, but we also think it’s very important to limit contact with unsafe media as swiftly, which is where a significant AI assistance is really helping us operate efficiently.”
