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Match’s random video chat app Azar could be the next Chatroulette — for better or for worse
Azar has facilitated over 100 billion video chats with its app, which randomly connects strangers around the globe. But until recently, the Seoul-based
“The automated tools are fired off first, whether it’s an image that is inappropriate, whether it’s audio, or whether it’s in text form, and then that’s when it’s triggered for the human moderator,” CEO Linda Kim told TechCrunch. Image Credits: AzarKim moved from the U.S. to Seoul two years ago to head up Azar, which is the flagship product of Hyperconnect, a video company that also operates a livestreaming service called Hakuna Live. Amy Wu, founder of the AI-based mental health app Manifest, recently told TechCrunch that “there will be unicorns that emerge … to address the loneliness epidemic.”
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