Microsoft wants to use AI to bleep out bad words in Xbox Live party chat

mood · Oct 14, 2019

Microsoft wants to use AI to bleep out bad words in Xbox Live party chat
Speech-to-text algorithms mulled for machine-learning-based moderation
October 14, 2019
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019...-bleep-out-bad-words-in-xbox-live-party-chat/

Today, Microsoft announced that it's rolling out filters that will let Xbox Live players automatically limit the text-based messages they receive to four maturity tiers: "Friendly, Medium, Mature, and Unfiltered." That's a long-overdue feature for a major communication platform that's well over a decade old now, but not really anything new in terms of online content moderation writ large.

Ultimately our vision is to supplement our existing efforts and leverage our company efforts in AI and machine learning technology to provide filtration across all types of content on Xbox Live, delivering control to each and every individual player.
That's all a bit vague, but The Verge reports on the real thrust of that passage: an effort by the company to "tackle the challenge of voice chat toxicity on Xbox Live."

The ultimate goal, Xbox Live program manager Rob Smith told The Verge, is a system "similar to what you'd expect on broadcast TV where people are having a conversation, and in real time, we're able to detect a bad phrase and beep it out for users who don’t want to see that."
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In the meantime, Smith said an algorithm could measure an overall "level of toxicity" in group chat and hand out automatic mutings for problematic users.
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The Verge: Microsoft unveils Xbox content filters to stop the swears and toxicity

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