Riot and Ubisoft partnering on research to create "more positive gaming communities"
Riot Games and Ubisoft have announced a partnership that’ll see the companies collaborating on a research project with the aim of creating “more positive gaming communities”.
As explained in a blog post on Riot’s website, the project – which goes by the name Zero Harm in Comms – is the first step in a cross-industry initiative that’ll see the two companies working on a database to collect in-game data.
This anonymised data – consisting of chat logs labelled by behaviours, from neutral to racist and sexist – will be used to better train AI-based preemptive moderation tools, helping them more effectively recognise and parse, and so detect and mitigate, disruptive behaviour in-game.
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