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AI is listening: Omnipresent robo-moderators are the latest online anti-toxicity strategy


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(Image credit: ESL Faceit Group)ProtectMe is also concerned with more than just what's being said in chat: It aims to identify variables like a speaker's age, emotional state, and whether they're a new acquaintance or someone the kid has previously talked to. It isn't always a super alarming incident that sets the system off, but Kerbs says that 45% of alerts relate to private information, such as a parent's social security or credit card number, being shared. His intent, he says, is to protect young kids and train them to know how to respond to bad actors—and that offers for free V-bucks are not, in fact, real—so that when they're teenagers, their parents are comfortable uninstalling the software.

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