The VKontakte neural network calculates threats to life and insults in the comments

At the heart of the new filter for administrators, which will fight online threats, isneural network.

The filter can be adjusted in the settingscommunity at any time. It's worth noting that it's disabled by default. The new VKontakte function has already appeared for administrators of 50% of public pages. The filter will be publicly available soon.

Now algorithms are able to identify direct threats -death wishes, promises to harm health and death threats. The VKontakte developers will not stop there and will continue testing the filter. In the future, he will learn to recognize other signs of intolerance. He will not miss bullying based on nationality or religion. Filtered publications with the ability to restore them are available to community leaders, but a test run showed that screened comments return no more than 1% of cases.

Filter testing started in November 2020.During this period, the function has already been used by the leaders of over 10% of all VKontakte communities. By the way, these are 13 million public pages, groups and events.

To create algorithms that understand wellcolloquial speech, a large number of texts in Russian were used - for example, subtitles from films, TV series and videos. The neural network contains a special attention mechanism that allows you to make decisions based on the importance of words and their combinations.

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