Twitch’s AutoMod uses machine learning to help police chat

December 12th, 2016 at 7:59 pm – Author Matthew Wilson Plenty of Twitch streamers have built up solid, friendly communities for their respective channels but a lot of that comes down to active moderation within the chat itself. The larger the streamer, the more moderation required to keep the channel’s chat in accordance with the rules. Now it looks like Twitch wants to lessen some of that burden with AutoMod, a chat bot that uses machine learning and natural language processing to police chat rooms. AutoMod isn’t necessarily intended to replace human moderators entirely, in-fact, Twitch’s tagline for the announcement is ‘Moderators are the sword, AutoMod is the shield’. Essentially, Mods will still be needed by streamers to help police chat, but AutoMod can flag up messages to be checked…

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