The platform is rolling out a new feature that enables them to reduce the volume of artificial intelligence-produced media appearing in their streams. This step comes as the service revealed that it presently contains over 1 thousand million AI-generated clips.
Trial and Implementation
The update is undergoing trials over the following weeks before a widespread rollout. This advancement comes amid a rise in content created by AI, spurred by recent video-generation tools.
AI Content on Other Platforms
It has been noted that approximately 10% of the fastest-growing video streams on a popular video site exclusively feature content made by AI. A significant portion of this output is deemed “AI slop”, a label for poor-quality, bulk-generated content that is typically illogical or dreamlike.
“We know from our community that a lot of users appreciate content created using AI tools, ranging from computer-generated images to science explainers, and we want to provide users the ability to increase or decrease of that, based on their own choices,” stated a spokesperson.
Volume and Proportions
The service shared that there are currently 1.3 billion videos on its network identified as made with AI. Collectively, over 100 m media items are added to the service daily, making AI content a relatively small part of its overall inventory.
How to Adjust Settings
Viewers will be in a position to reduce or increase the amount of artificial media they see by using the topic control option in the platform and picking “AI-generated content”. Other topics that are already be modified under the setting encompass news, clothing, beauty, and dance.
Platform Guidelines
The platform’s guidelines require users to label “realistic” artificially created content, and it bans dangerous fake videos of well-known individuals or critical incidents. Any authentic-looking AI-generated clip that is without a tag can be taken down under its terms of service.
Furthermore, the platform will now add an “AI-made” watermark to content created with its built-in AI features, or detected by an industry-wide initiative for recognizing AI-generated material. This action is aimed to stop users from seeking to evade the labeling process.
Educational Initiatives
The company is furthermore introducing a two million dollar educational fund for experts and groups to develop informative material about ethical AI use. This initiative will benefit educational bodies specializing in teaching computer science.
Moderation Strategy
The video-sharing app has defended its safety measures, during debate over intentions to cut jobs for a large number of content moderators in the UK. The company is planning to eliminate 439 jobs in its trust and safety division in the UK capital, with trade unions and internet security professionals voicing alarm that humans are being replaced by automated systems.
A company official stated that staff-based oversight would continue to be important, but artificial intelligence can safeguard staff by eliminating the most harmful content ahead of it gets reviewed by people. The company reported a 76% decrease in explicit and harmful content seen by safety staff over the last 12 months due to intervention by its machine learning processes.
“We think that it’s essential to integrate people and machines to ensure user safety,” the official commented. “We’ll have staff as part of that process, but we also think it’s extremely critical to reduce exposure to dangerous material as rapidly, which is why a extensive automated help is really helping us work at speed.”
