Users will soon have a fresh option that permits them to cut down on the amount of artificial intelligence-produced content appearing in their feeds. This move comes as the company disclosed that it now features more than 1 bn content made with AI.
Testing and Rollout
This change is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a full-scale release. This shift aligns with a rise in AI content, driven by recent content generation software.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that approximately a tenth of the fastest-growing content creators on a popular video site only show content made by AI. A considerable share of this content is considered low-quality AI content, a term for poor-quality, mass-produced content that is typically absurd or dreamlike.
Our research shows that a lot of users enjoy content created using AI tools, including digital art to educational videos, and we aim to offer the community the power to increase or decrease of that, based on their own likes,” said a platform representative.
AI on the Platform
The service disclosed that there are now 1.3bn videos on its service tagged as artificially created. In total, in excess of 100 million pieces of content are added to the platform daily, making AI content a relatively small part of its complete catalog.
User Control Features
Members will be capable of reduce or increase the amount of artificial media they watch by using the “manage topic” option in the platform and picking the AI content topic. Further subjects that are already be modified under the filter encompass current affairs, fashion, beauty, and movement.
Platform Guidelines
Its policies oblige content makers to identify convincing AI-made content, and it forbids harmful fake videos of celebrities or crisis events. Any authentic-looking AI video that is without a tag can be deleted under its community policies.
Furthermore, the platform will from now on apply an “AI-made” watermark to content created with its own AI tools, or detected by an cross-platform project for identifying content made by AI. This step is aimed to help prevent users from trying to evade the tagging system.
Educational Initiatives
The platform is furthermore establishing a $2 million AI literacy fund for specialists and organizations to develop learning resources about responsible artificial intelligence. This initiative will assist non-profit groups focused on educating computer science.
Moderation Strategy
TikTok has justified its moderation strategy, during controversy over plans to make redundant hundreds of content moderators in Britain. TikTok is planning to reduce 439 jobs in its user protection department in London, with worker representatives and online safety experts raising concerns that people are being substituted by machine-led review.
A senior executive clarified that people-led review would still have a role, but artificial intelligence can safeguard staff by eliminating the most harmful content ahead of it gets reviewed by staff. The company announced a notable drop in shocking and graphic content handled by safety staff over the previous year due to intervention by its automated systems.
“We think that it’s essential to balance humans and technology to ensure user safety,” the executive stated. “We’ll have humans as integral to the approach, but we further consider it’s very important to reduce exposure to unsafe media as rapidly, which is where a extensive automated help is making a difference operate efficiently.”
