Call Of Duty using AI to listen out for hate speech during online matches::The tool, which will monitor voice chat for any bullying and harassment, will be part of Modern Warfare III - the next game in the series - when it launches in November.
Do people use CoD VOIP chat for anything but slurs, bullying, & harassment?
I can see this leading to fan complaints with stupid over moderation like we’ve seen in text moderation. For example Spanish speakers getting banned for saying “negro” or someone getting removed for naively being tricked into answering a trap question.
I mute voice chat because I play games to enjoy myself.
Seriously, considering there is no dedicated server browser and even lobbies are not consistent. What on earth does random voice chat add to the experience? I just hit the mute button on my console as soon as I boot the game
I leave it on so I can hear people on the receiving end rage. We are not the same.
I used to forget my mic was turned on and vape right next to the microphone. That’s an additional use for VOIP chat.
Yeah I forgot about that and hearing some kid’s parent’s marriage failing in the background.
Don’t support of system to get someone to listen back to flagged content could work well. Could be trusted member of the community like DOTA 2s overwatch feature
Great. Now I’ll never know whose house my mom is at every morning.
Actually ban cheaters nah, police voice chat
It’s not exclusive. A twelve year old yelling slurs into their microphone is easily detectable using modern technology. Why not?
Hey, another thing a chatbot could be trained to be good at. That’s actually not a bad idea.
Why not get it to misunderstand context on the speach it can’t understand.
Kids will create new slang for derogatory terms.
It’s associations are gonna be so strong that any human voice will immediately trigger the harassment alarm lol.
It’s “listening for it.”
LOL. This isn’t SETI where you’ll go 30 years without hearing anything. It should find hate speech within seconds. So it either works or not, and we should know already. Which is it?
To boost it in a nostalgia effort.
Wonder how effective it will be. People screaming into cheap mics tends to be incomprehensible at the best of times. It might not be able to detect much at all.
Glad I haven’t played a cod game in years.
There’s already a report button if someone has an issue with it let them report it, this is just going to lead to a ton of false positives or be completely useless.
I’d argue the report button has the same flaws. Woop someone badly in a match? Reported. Report someone making bigoted remarks? You’ll still see them in a lobby weeks later.
This is dumb. Even without AI almost each generation has it’s own slang and slurs …
Just wait until it mishears what is in actuality a man with an Irish accent saying the word “neither”
