Alphabet's AI-Powered Chrome Extension Hides Toxic Comments

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Alphabet offshoot Jigsaw is launching a Chrome extension designed to help moderate toxic comments on social media. The new open-source tool, dubbed 'Tune,' builds on the machine learning smarts introduced in Jigsaw's 'Perspective' tech to help sites like Facebook and Twitter set the 'volume' of abusive comments. Using 'filter mix' controls, users can either turn toxic comments off altogether (what's known as 'zen mode') or show selective types of posts containing attacks, insults, or profanity. Tune also works with Reddit, YouTube and Disqus. Jigsaw admits that Tune is still an experiment, meaning it may not spot all forms of toxicity or could hide non-offensive comments. 'We're constantly working to improve the underlying technology, and users can easily give feedback right in the tool to help us improve our algorithms,' C.J. Adams, Jigsaw product manager, wrote in a blog post.

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