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Users will soon have a new feature that allows them to lessen the quantity of AI-made content appearing in their streams. This initiative comes as the platform announced that it now features in excess of 1 billion content made with AI.

Trial and Implementation

The update is undergoing trials over the coming weeks before a global release. This development comes amid a surge in content created by AI, fueled by recent video-generation tools.

AI Content on Other Platforms

Studies have shown that nearly 10% of the quickest rising video streams on a competing service primarily display clips produced artificially. A large amount of this content is considered “AI slop”, a label for substandard, bulk-generated content that is typically illogical or dreamlike.

Based on user feedback that many people appreciate content created using AI tools, from computer-generated images to science explainers, and we intend to provide users the option to adjust the amount of that, based on their own preferences,” commented a platform representative.

Scale of AI Content

TikTok announced that there are currently over a billion videos on its network identified as made with AI. Collectively, more than 100 mn videos are added to the platform every day, making AI-generated material a limited portion of its complete catalog.

Customizing Your Feed

Users will be in a position to decrease or raise the volume of AI-generated videos they see by using the topic control setting in the application and selecting AI-made media. Other topics that are already be modified under the setting include politics, fashion, beauty, and movement.

Platform Guidelines

Its guidelines mandate users to identify convincing artificially created content, and it forbids harmful fake videos of public figures or crisis events. Any realistic AI-generated clip that is not labeled can be taken down under its user guidelines.

In addition, the platform will from now on attach an “AI-made” watermark to content made using its proprietary AI systems, or flagged by an collaborative effort for recognizing AI-generated material. This measure is intended to help prevent users from seeking to circumvent the labeling process.

Educational Initiatives

The company is additionally launching a $2m awareness program for specialists and groups to produce educational content about using AI responsibly. This initiative will benefit non-profit groups focused on teaching coding and technology.

Platform Protection

The video-sharing app has supported its content review process, during controversy over intentions to make redundant a large number of content moderators in Britain. The company is set to cut hundreds of positions in its content moderation department in its British office, with worker representatives and digital protection specialists raising concerns that people are being substituted by automated systems.

A company official clarified that human moderation would still have a role, but AI can protect employees by eliminating the most harmful content prior to it is viewed by people. TikTok stated a significant reduction in explicit and harmful content reviewed by human moderators over the past year due to intervention by its automated systems.

It is vital to integrate humans and technology to ensure user safety,” she said. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s very important to reduce exposure to unsafe media as quickly as possible, which is where a extensive automated help is really helping us work at speed.”