Users will soon have a new feature that enables them to lessen the quantity of AI-made videos appearing in their feeds. This step comes as the company revealed that it currently hosts over 1 billion content made with AI.
Trial and Implementation
The update is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a full-scale launch. This shift comes amid a increase in AI content, driven by recent AI video creators.
The Broader AI Trend
Recent reports that nearly a tenth of the fastest-growing video streams on a popular video site primarily display content made by AI. A large amount of this material is deemed low-quality AI content, a label for substandard, mass-produced content that is often nonsensical or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that many people appreciate content produced via AI tools, from computer-generated images to science explainers, and we want to provide users the ability to adjust the amount of that, based on their own preferences,” commented a platform representative.
Volume and Proportions
The service disclosed that there are currently 1.3bn videos on its service labeled as AI-generated. Collectively, more than 100 million media items are added to the app every day, making AI content a limited part of its overall inventory.
User Control Features
Users will be capable of reduce or increase the amount of AI-generated videos they watch by opening the “manage topic” setting in the app and selecting AI-made media. Further subjects that currently be adjusted under the filter cover politics, fashion, aesthetics, and movement.
Platform Guidelines
Its guidelines require content makers to tag lifelike AI-generated content, and it forbids harmful AI impersonations of well-known individuals or emergencies. Any authentic-looking AI video that is unmarked can be deleted under its terms of service.
Additionally, the service will from now on apply an “AI-made” tag to content created with its own AI tools, or identified by an collaborative effort for identifying artificial media. This measure is designed to deter users from seeking to evade the disclosure requirement.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is additionally launching a two million dollar AI literacy fund for professionals and organizations to create informative material about ethical AI use. This initiative will assist charitable organizations dedicated to educating computer science.
Platform Protection
The video-sharing app has defended its moderation strategy, following debate over plans to lay off hundreds of content moderators in the United Kingdom. The company is set to eliminate 439 jobs in its trust and safety department in the UK capital, with labor groups and digital protection specialists raising concerns that staff are being displaced by AI moderation.
A trust and safety lead clarified that staff-based oversight would still have a role, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by removing the most distressing content ahead of it is viewed by staff. TikTok stated a 76% decrease in explicit and harmful content seen by content reviewers over the past year due to the use of its machine learning processes.
“We think that it’s essential to combine staff and AI to maintain a secure environment,” the executive stated. “We’ll have people as integral to the approach, but we additionally believe it’s extremely critical to minimize viewing of dangerous material as swiftly, which is why a significant AI assistance is proving valuable operate efficiently.”
