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Users will soon have a fresh option that allows them to reduce the quantity of AI-created media appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the service announced that it currently hosts in excess of 1 billion content made with AI.

Trial and Implementation

The update is in a pilot phase over the following weeks before a widespread rollout. This development comes amid a rise in content created by AI, spurred by recent video-generation tools.

The Broader AI Trend

It has been noted that almost 10% of the most rapidly expanding content creators on a popular video site primarily display AI-generated videos. A large amount of this content is classified as low-quality AI content, a term for inferior, mass-produced content that is often absurd or surreal.

Our research shows that many people appreciate content made with AI tools, ranging from computer-generated images to informative clips, and we intend to provide users the power to increase or decrease of that, according to their own choices,” stated a platform representative.

Scale of AI Content

TikTok disclosed that there are currently 1.3 billion videos on its app labeled as AI-generated. Overall, over 100 mn media items are added to the platform each day, making AI-generated material a relatively small part of its complete catalog.

Customizing Your Feed

Viewers will be capable of reduce or increase the volume of artificial media they view by accessing the “manage topic” setting in the platform and picking the AI content topic. Further subjects that currently be adjusted under the setting include politics, style, beauty, and movement.

Platform Guidelines

TikTok’s policies oblige creators to tag convincing AI-made content, and it prohibits malicious fake videos of celebrities or crisis events. Any authentic-looking artificial content that is not labeled can be deleted under its community policies.

Furthermore, the service will now add an artificially created watermark to content produced via its built-in AI features, or flagged by an collaborative effort for identifying AI-generated material. This action is aimed to stop users from attempting to circumvent the tagging system.

AI Literacy Programs

The company is furthermore launching a $2 million educational fund for specialists and organizations to create learning resources about responsible artificial intelligence. This program will assist non-profit groups focused on training programming and robotics.

Platform Protection

The platform has supported its content review process, during discussion over proposals to make redundant numerous content moderators in the UK. It is planning to reduce a significant number of roles in its content moderation division in London, with worker representatives and internet security professionals expressing worry that people are being substituted by AI moderation.

A company official stated that people-led review would still have a role, but artificial intelligence can protect employees by removing the most distressing content before it has to be seen by people. The platform announced a 76% decrease in disturbing and violent content handled by human moderators over the last 12 months due to the use of its machine learning processes.

It is vital to combine humans and technology to maintain a secure environment,” the official commented. “We’ll have staff as part of that process, but we also think it’s extremely critical to minimize viewing of dangerous material as rapidly, which is where a extensive automated help is really helping us process content quickly.”