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TikTok is introducing a new feature that enables them to lessen the quantity of artificial intelligence-produced content appearing in their feeds. This step comes as the company announced that it presently contains more than 1 bn content made with AI.

Trial and Implementation

The update is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a widespread release. This development coincides with a rise in AI content, driven by emerging video-generation tools.

AI Proliferation Online

It has been noted that almost 10% of the fastest-growing channels on a competing service primarily display clips produced artificially. A large amount of this content is classified as “AI slop”, a term for poor-quality, mass-produced content that is often illogical or bizarre.

Based on user feedback that a lot of users enjoy content made with AI tools, including computer-generated images to informative clips, and we want to offer the community the power to increase or decrease of that, based on their own choices,” stated a spokesperson.

AI on the Platform

TikTok shared that there are now over a billion videos on its service tagged as AI-generated. In total, more than 100 million pieces of content are added to the platform each day, making AI content a relatively small percentage of its overall inventory.

How to Adjust Settings

Users will be in a position to reduce or increase the volume of AI content they view by opening the “manage topic” setting in the application and picking the AI content topic. Other topics that are already be controlled under the filter include current affairs, clothing, aesthetics, and dance.

Platform Guidelines

The platform’s rules require users to tag convincing artificially created content, and it bans dangerous fake videos of celebrities or emergencies. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is not labeled can be deleted under its terms of service.

Furthermore, the service will from now on attach an AI-generated watermark to content made using its built-in AI features, or flagged by an cross-platform project for spotting artificial media. This measure is designed to deter users from attempting to bypass the tagging system.

AI Literacy Programs

The platform is additionally establishing a $2m AI literacy fund for professionals and institutions to create learning resources about using AI responsibly. This initiative will benefit educational bodies dedicated to teaching programming and robotics.

Platform Protection

The platform has defended its moderation strategy, during controversy over intentions to cut jobs for hundreds of review team members in the United Kingdom. It is set to reduce hundreds of positions in its user protection division in the UK capital, with labor groups and online safety experts voicing alarm that staff are being displaced by machine-led review.

A senior executive clarified that human moderation would still have a role, but AI can shield workers by filtering out the most graphic content ahead of it has to be seen by people. The platform announced a 76% decrease in explicit and harmful content reviewed by human moderators over the previous year due to the use of its machine learning processes.

We believe it is crucial to integrate staff and AI to maintain a secure environment,” the executive stated. “We’ll have humans as involved in the system, but we additionally believe it’s extremely critical to reduce exposure to dangerous material as swiftly, which is where a extensive automated help is proving valuable process content quickly.”