Using AI Guard Players Against Online Abuse
Many tennis players live their life online, allowing fans to see what happens on the court. It allows fans to connect with players and vice versa.
However, for some, the messages that follow a match, win or loss, take on a totally different tone.
Taylor Townsend, an American, tweeted a screenshot of a death threat and racist abuse she got in an email earlier in May.
This year’s French Open administrators have given artificial intelligence-protection from social media harassment to tournament players. The Bodyguard technology seeks to filter out hostile remarks on social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Tiktok, and Discord.
Players can scan a QR code to connect their social media accounts to its system, with the company stating it analyses every real-time comment in under 200 milliseconds and blocks abusive remarks.
The company states a team of linguists has created word patterns that can be updated in real time that would help it filter out abusive comments, adding: “the aim is to let nothing slip through the net, while being careful not to be too censorial.”
(With inputs from Shikha Singh)
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