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The platform is rolling out a updated setting that allows them to lessen the volume of AI-made media appearing in their timelines. This step comes as the platform announced that it currently hosts over 1 bn content made with AI.

Testing and Rollout

The update is being tested over the coming weeks before a full-scale launch. This advancement comes amid a rise in content created by AI, spurred by recent video-generation tools.

AI Content on Other Platforms

Recent reports that approximately 10% of the fastest-growing content creators on a popular video site primarily display clips produced artificially. A large amount of this material is deemed “AI slop”, a label for inferior, bulk-generated content that is often illogical or bizarre.

“We know from our community that many people like content produced via AI tools, including AI artwork to science explainers, and we intend to offer the community the power to increase or decrease of that, according to their own preferences,” stated a platform representative.

Volume and Proportions

The service shared that there are currently over a billion videos on its network tagged as artificially created. In total, in excess of 100 m pieces of content are uploaded to the app daily, making AI content a limited portion of its complete catalog.

Customizing Your Feed

Viewers will be in a position to limit or boost the volume of AI content they watch by opening the “manage topic” feature in the app and choosing AI-made media. Further subjects that can already be modified under the setting encompass news, clothing, beauty, and movement.

AI Disclosure Rules

The platform’s rules oblige users to tag “realistic” AI-made content, and it prohibits dangerous AI impersonations of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any realistic AI video that is unmarked can be taken down under its community policies.

In addition, the app will now apply an artificially created tag to content made using its built-in AI features, or identified by an cross-platform project for spotting content made by AI. This action is aimed to stop users from trying to bypass the labeling process.

AI Literacy Programs

TikTok is additionally establishing a $2 million AI literacy fund for specialists and organizations to develop educational content about using AI responsibly. This project will benefit charitable organizations focused on educating programming and robotics.

Platform Protection

TikTok has justified its content review process, amid discussion over plans to lay off a large number of review team members in the UK. The company is planning to reduce 439 jobs in its content moderation team in London, with trade unions and internet security professionals raising concerns that humans are being replaced by machine-led review.

A company official clarified that staff-based oversight would still have a role, but automated tools can shield workers by filtering out the most graphic content before it is viewed by humans. The platform announced a notable drop in explicit and harmful content reviewed by content reviewers over the previous year due to intervention by its automated systems.

It is vital to integrate people and machines to ensure user safety,” the official commented. “We’ll have people as involved in the system, but we further consider it’s highly necessary to minimize viewing of harmful content as swiftly, which is why a lot of the machine support is making a difference process content quickly.”