Technology has evolved a lot in the last few years. There are a lot of social media sites and chat rooms on the internet and people are communicating faster than they ever used to. This has caused some problems because people sometimes tend to make comments which are considered sexist or racist.
Manual moderation can’t keep track with these comments and messages and some of them remain on the sites. This is why Twitch has created an automated tool which is going to moderate these comments and posts. The name of the automated tool is AutoMod.
This tool is going to take care of those inappropriate messages. This means that Twitch is not going to rely on users to flag messages; it is going to use this tool to take down the messages much faster. All inapropriate content will be detected by AutoMod and sent to a moderation queue for dismissal or approval.
There are four levels of aggression from which users can choose. These levels are sexual language, identity, profanity, and aggressive speech. The developers of AutoMod mentioned that the automated tool is not as easy to trick as users believe. They also said that this automated tool goes beyond banned word lists and can find the smallest inappropriate content.
“Beyond identifying inappropriate words and phrases, AutoMod can detect potentially inappropriate strings of emotes and other characters or symbols that others could use to evade filtering,” mentioned the developers in a press release.
Other sites have tried to develop automated tools that can detect inappropriate messages or comments but many of those were tricked by users and their comments are still there. This automated tool, developed by Twitch needs to be better and to really detect sexual or aggressive language. Many users will try to trick the automated tool but developers still believe that their tool can’t be fooled by trolls.
The automated tool is now available in English and it can also work in beta form in Czech, Italian, Arabic, Polish, Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese, Korean, and French. Users can turn on this automated tool from their setting page on Twitch.
What is your opinion about AutoMod? Do you think that this tool is going to work?
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