TikTok creators just found a new AI setting on their videos — and they’re not happy

TikTok has turned on an “Allow AI to remix content” setting by default across every video that creators have ever posted.

The toggle sits right in the privacy options for individual clips. It’s switched on automatically, even for years-old uploads, and there’s no account-wide switch to kill it. Creators have to open each video, tap the three dots, go into privacy settings, and flip the third slider off.

One VTuber who’s been posting for six years said it’ll take days to clean up their backlog. Another spent an hour knocking out three years’ worth of clips and still wasn’t done.

The post that lit the fuse came from @pandemosvtuber, a VTuber who called it an “emergency roll call.” They wrote that TikTok was “forcing all of us to allow AI to remix our videos” with “no way to remove it” and warned that “our content is being stolen for AI data.” It racked up more than 22,000 views in just a few hours on X.

The setting sits next to the older “Allow reuse of content” option, which already covers Duets, Stitches, stickers, and adding to Stories. This new one specifically green-lights AI involvement.

Some pointed out that CapCut, TikTok’s sister editing app, has used a similar per-video opt-out for a while. The difference here is the retroactive change. Past videos that sat untouched for years suddenly got opted in without notice. One poster told users to go through every single clip and uncheck it, because it was already enabled on all of theirs.

This isn’t the first time an AI feature has blindsided creators. Back in December, X’s Grok image-editing tool sparked identical anger when artists found their work could be used with no easy opt-out. That one eventually got fixed after the backlash. TikTok hasn’t said anything publicly about this change yet, nor have we found any documentation about the feature in general.

For now, the fix is pure manual labor. Mobile only. One video at a time. A few have simply decided the hassle isn’t worth it and are eyeing the exit.

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