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API to detect toxic comments (perspectiveapi.com)
8 points by _mlxl on Aug 10, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


"Genocide is good" = 13% toxicity, "Genocide is bad" = 87% toxicity

Pure garbage.


Although on a technical level I think it could prove an interesting challenge, I worry about it's implications on speech across the web. Besides potential fears about the creators bias training it, all I think this will do is create clever slang to get around the filter. There was a joke on 4chan a long time ago about starting to use the names of major companies as racial slurs because it would be harder to filter and I could easily see something like that happening here.




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