Twitch is a video streaming platform where streamers can share content and interact live with their communities via chat.
Faced with waves of insulting messages and hateful attacks against certain streamers, the platform has embarked on the creation of artificial intelligence (AI) to combat this problem.
This new tool aimed at combating cyberbullying, baptised Detection of Suspicious Users, is particularly aimed at streamers from minority groups (ethnic, religious, sexual), but also at women, who are the primary victims of cyberbullying on Twitch. Several reports from the platform have shown that virtually all female streamers have been victims of online violence.
In a tweet, Twitch explains: “Detecting suspicious users helps you identify accounts suspected of circumventing a ban and prevent them from sending messages before they can disrupt your stream.”
Thanks to technology based on machine learning, Twitch will now be able to know when a user creates a new anonymous account to return and comment on the channels that banned them. The principle is therefore simple: banish haters before they act.
If you are a victim or witness of cyberbullying on Twitch, you can always report the user and block them.
