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Users will soon have a fresh option that enables them to cut down on the volume of artificial intelligence-produced media appearing in their timelines. This initiative comes as the service disclosed that it now features more than 1 thousand million content made with AI.

Testing and Rollout

The update is being tested over the following weeks before a full-scale rollout. This shift coincides with a surge in content created by AI, fueled by new content generation software.

AI Proliferation Online

Recent reports that nearly one in 10 of the fastest-growing video streams on a popular video site exclusively feature AI-generated videos. A large amount of this content is deemed “AI slop”, a label for substandard, factory-style content that is often illogical or dreamlike.

“We know from our community that a lot of users like content made with AI tools, including AI artwork to science explainers, and we aim to give people the ability to adjust the amount of that, depending on their own preferences,” said a spokesperson.

Scale of AI Content

The service disclosed that there are currently over a billion videos on its app tagged as made with AI. Collectively, over 100 m videos are uploaded to the app every day, making clips made by AI a minor portion of its complete catalog.

User Control Features

Users will be in a position to limit or boost the amount of AI content they see by accessing the content preference feature in the application and selecting AI-made media. Other topics that can already be modified under the setting cover current affairs, style, beauty, and choreography.

Platform Guidelines

Its policies mandate creators to tag lifelike AI-made content, and it prohibits malicious deepfakes of well-known individuals or crisis events. Any authentic-looking AI video that is not labeled can be removed under its community policies.

In addition, the platform will from now on attach an “AI-made” tag to content made using its built-in AI features, or identified by an industry-wide initiative for recognizing AI-generated material. This action is designed to deter users from seeking to circumvent the disclosure requirement.

AI Literacy Programs

The platform is furthermore establishing a $2 million educational fund for professionals and organizations to create learning resources about ethical AI use. This project will support non-profit groups dedicated to training coding and technology.

Platform Protection

TikTok has supported its safety measures, following discussion over proposals to lay off hundreds of content moderators in the UK. TikTok is set to cut hundreds of positions in its content moderation division in its British office, with labor groups and online safety experts expressing worry that humans are being replaced by AI moderation.

A company official stated that staff-based oversight would still have a role, but AI can protect employees by eliminating the most graphic content prior to it gets reviewed by staff. The platform reported a 76% decrease in disturbing and violent content seen by content reviewers over the past year due to reliance on its AI tools.

We believe it is crucial to combine staff and AI to keep the platform safe,” the official commented. “We’ll have humans as part of that process, but we further consider it’s very important to reduce exposure to dangerous material as swiftly, which is the area in which a extensive automated help is making a difference process content quickly.”