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How Twitch Introduces Machine Learning to Detect Suspect Users

Twitch introduces machine learning feature to detect suspicious users. Twitch has been having a difficult time as more people are using the platform. The company has now come out with a new way of dealing with this and it is to flag suspicious users who might be malicious.

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And our next article is Twitch introduces machine learning feature to detect suspicious users. So Twitch has been having a difficult time as more people are using Twitch. Also, this rough year has also come with a lot of hate raids, a lot of streamer abuse, unfortunately, a lot of bad behavior on the platform and moderating it has been pretty challenging. And the company has now come out with a new way of dealing with this and it is to flag suspicious users who might be malicious or something like that within the platform. And I think this kind of moderation and this kind of hate raids have occurred across a lot of these different platforms. Zoom, for example, Zoom bombing, it's a whole thing. So it's not surprising that this has been a problem, but it's great to see how they have come out with some kind of solution where they essentially flag certain users. Yeah,
Speaker 1
exactly. I think this is a great use of AI. They call this new system a suspicious user detection system. And basically, on a live basis, as you have a chat, which is what Twitch has, you have a running sort of discussion instead of just post. The moderator of a streamer can see this model classify certain comments as maybe being likely to be bad. And then that comment is actually hidden that then needs to be kind of approved by the streamer or the mod. And there's also a possible marking where they just kind of less hidden. And this will be turned on by default for all streamers. So it's interesting. They are really confident of this. And of course, AI dream moderation is common. It's used in Facebook and really probably every site. But this sort of live chat thing maybe is pretty novel. And I think they're useful for sure.

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