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TikTok is ramping up its efforts to automatically label AI-generated content in its app, even when it was created with third-party tools. The company“realistic” AI-generated content. But that policy can be difficult for the company to enforce, particularly when creators use other companies’ AI tools. But becauseare increasingly used across the AI industry, TikTok’s new automated labels should be able to address some of those gaps.
Often described as a “nutrition label for digital content,” content credentials attach “tamper-evident metadata” that can trace the origins of an image and AI tools that were used to edit it along the way. That history can then be viewed by users if they come across a piece of AI-made content on a platform that supports the technology.
TikTok says it will be the first video platform to support content credentials, though it will take some time before these labels become commonplace since many companies are only just beginning to support the technology. (Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Adobe have all pledged to support content credentials. Meta has said its using the standard to power
However, it’s worth noting that content credentials and other systems that rely on metadata aren’t foolproof. OpenAI notes on athat the tech “is not a silver bullet” and that metadata “can easily be removed either accidentally or intentionally.” Labels also simply aren’t that effective if people don’t bother reading them. TikTok says it has a plan to address that too.
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