Users will soon have a fresh option that enables them to reduce the volume of artificial intelligence-produced videos appearing in their streams. This step comes as the service disclosed that it currently hosts more than 1 thousand million AI-generated clips.
Trial and Implementation
This change is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a full-scale release. This shift comes amid a increase in content created by AI, driven by recent AI video creators.
AI Content on Other Platforms
Studies have shown that approximately one in 10 of the most rapidly expanding video streams on a competing service primarily display content made by AI. A considerable share of this output is classified as “AI slop”, a label for inferior, mass-produced content that is often illogical or surreal.
Based on user feedback that numerous viewers enjoy content made with AI tools, from AI artwork to informative clips, and we aim to provide users the option to see more or less of that, depending on their own choices,” commented a company executive.
Scale of AI Content
The platform announced that there are currently over a billion videos on its service labeled as artificially created. Collectively, over 100 mn videos are added to the service daily, making AI content a relatively small part of its complete catalog.
User Control Features
Members will be capable of reduce or increase the volume of artificial media they watch by using the “manage topic” feature in the app and choosing the AI content topic. Additional categories that can already be adjusted under the filter include politics, fashion, cosmetics, and choreography.
AI Disclosure Rules
The platform’s guidelines oblige users to label “realistic” AI-made content, and it forbids dangerous AI impersonations of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any realistic artificial content that is not labeled can be taken down under its terms of service.
Additionally, the service will now add an artificially created label to content created with its own AI tools, or flagged by an industry-wide initiative for spotting content made by AI. This action is aimed to help prevent users from seeking to circumvent the disclosure requirement.
Responsible AI Funding
The company is furthermore introducing a $2 million AI literacy fund for specialists and groups to develop educational content about responsible artificial intelligence. This project will assist non-profit groups specializing in educating computer science.
Platform Protection
The platform has supported its moderation strategy, following debate over plans to cut jobs for a large number of safety staff in Britain. The company is set to eliminate 439 jobs in its trust and safety division in the UK capital, with worker representatives and digital protection specialists raising concerns that humans are being replaced by automated systems.
A senior executive stated that people-led review would continue to be important, but artificial intelligence can shield workers by removing the most harmful content before it gets reviewed by people. TikTok announced a 76% decrease in explicit and harmful content seen by human moderators over the last 12 months due to reliance on its machine learning processes.
We believe it is crucial to balance humans and technology to ensure user safety,” she said. “We’ll have humans as involved in the system, but we also think it’s very important to minimize viewing of dangerous material as rapidly, which is the area in which a extensive automated help is really helping us operate efficiently.”
