TikTok is implementing improvements to strengthen its adult content restriction policy, with developments such as the new detection model for sexually explicit, suggestive or “borderline” content to restrict it to minor users.
The social network has implemented in recent months new ways to limit certain types of content, classified as mature or complex, depending on the age of the users to increase the safety of younger members.
Background
At the beginning of the year 2022, TikTok began to introduce the system ofContent Levels”, designed to classify videos based on categories, including implied nudity, sensual content and other content “not suitable for all audiences”, with which he intends to prevent audiences between 13 and 17 years old from reaching audiences.
With this measure, the platform affirms that they have prevented adolescent accounts from seeing more than a million videos “overtly sexual or suggestive”only in the month of December.
In this way, the new model detects these videos in a “more consistent and accurate”. Thus, the social network has indicated that, on the one hand, it identifies and eliminates “quickly” the content “offenders” and, on the other hand, prevents the contents “limit” appear in the feeds of minors or can be searched from adolescent accounts.
As he has expressed TikTokhas made progress in reducing recommendations for “borderline” or suggestive content in general.
Now, they hope that the detection of this type of content will improve “creating a more suitable and comfortable experience for teen accounts”, he added.
The platform also targeted creators, providing audience controls so they could restrict their content to accounts. over 18 years in live videos.
Hereinafter, TikTok it will also offer this option to short video creators. As explained by the social network, this function will be available globally in the upcoming weeks and will allow the creator to decide if the content is appropriate for minors or not.
proposals
another proposal of TikTok is to stop the dissemination of intimate images not consented. For this, like meta and bumblewas associated with StopNCII.organ initiative that caters to victims of what is known as revenge porn and automatically removes contents identified with this activity.
