AI is listening in on gamer chat for toxic and abusive language

Artificial intelligence is getting used to detect harassment in verbal communications for gaming and VR platforms, however such AIs face challenges in maintaining with evolving types of excessive speech

By Jeremy Hsu

AI has entered the gaming chat – and it’s listening for hate speech. Some of the worrld’s hottest video games at the moment are utilizing synthetic intelligence to detect verbal harassment or hate speech in among the world’s hottest video games.

The service, known as ToxMod, makes use of a number of AIs to transcribe and analyse verbal conversations amongst players, flagging potential violations of neighborhood guidelines for the eye of human moderators. Developed by the corporate Modulate in Massachusetts, ToxMod is being examined by corporations that function video games or …