Cyberbullying is a major problem facing communication platforms, but artificial intelligence is on the lookout

Cyberbullying is one of the major problems faced by various social media platforms, and it is an extension of ancient human behavior, but it has become more ferocious with the digital revolution and the dawn of the social media era that provided easier ways for bullies around the world to practice their behaviors aimed at Harming others in a deliberate, hostile, and repeated manner.

This problem was exacerbated during the recent Corona pandemic due to the increase in the number of users, as well as the great free time that most people found themselves living during long periods of ban, which made the communication sites the most popular outlet for people around the world, and also increased the number of attempts at bullying, abuse and extortion greatly and Preceded.

These sites - including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Tinder, Tik Tok, and others - are trying to address the problem by giving users more control tools to control their accounts and reduce the power of bullies across the network, and recently these platforms have started using artificial intelligence to control the problem and reduce it through the use of Certain surveillance algorithms have been developed to spot comments, abusive behavior and harmful language used in bullying attempts, and then intervene to detect and prevent them in a timely manner.

Tik Tok allows to block 100 users in one go

The latest of these efforts - which uses artificial intelligence to reduce cyberbullying - is what TikTok announced in a press release published a few days ago, as part of its tireless efforts to combat cyberbullying and harassment through its platform, by developing a new tool that allows people to Its popular short video app around the world by blocking multiple users and deleting a lot of malicious comments at the same time.

The company said - in the statement - that registered users on the platform will be able to choose about 100 comments that they want to delete or report, and users will also be able to block 100 people at once who harass them or try to harass them and bully them.

YouTube company announced the launch of new features using artificial intelligence algorithms to combat harassment on its platform (Anadolu Agency)

Accessing this new tool added by the application is easy.

The user just has to press and hold the offensive comment, or click on the pencil icon in the upper left corner of the video, and from there the user will be directed to a window with options that include blocking those he wants to block, or delete the comments he deems offensive and inappropriate.

Before this new tool, the process of reporting abusive users and provocative comments was a tedious process and took a long time due to its limitations, as the user had to delete each comment separately, or block one user at a time, but with this new tool, users can delete and block a large number From comments and bullies all at once.

Last March, TikTok introduced a feature to filter all comments, in addition to monitoring comments containing offensive words, and asking people - who want to publish them - to reconsider publishing their notes if they wrote a harmful comment.

TikTok said that the ability to delete multiple comments and report on wholesale users will be launched first in Britain, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, Vietnam and Thailand, and that it will be circulated to users from all over the world in the coming weeks.

are you sure?

"are you sure?"

(? are you sure) is the latest safety and anti-harassment feature added by Tinder, the most popular dating site in the world, through which it asks users to stop and think carefully before sending a potentially offensive message.

This feature aims to reduce harassment across the platform by using artificial intelligence to detect harmful language and intervene to prevent abuse.

Through this feature, a message is sent warning the sender that his message may be offensive, asking him to stop and think before pressing the send button, and the California-based company explained that artificial intelligence is being trained on what users reported in the past.

The company also stated that users who saw the "demand to stop" message were less likely to report inappropriate messages during the following month, which contributed significantly to preventing offensive comments.

Tinder also introduced the "Is this bothering you?"

Does This Bother You?

Other social media sites - including Instagram and YouTube - also used similar techniques to warn users before posting abusive comments or making attempts to harass and bully online using these platforms. In March, Instagram reported that it allowed users to block and block multiple accounts from being able to Commenting, as part of its broader efforts to combat bullying and harassment on the platform.

In the same context, YouTube had announced the launch of new features using artificial intelligence algorithms to combat harassment on its platform, and YouTube plans to test a new filter to filter out potentially offensive comments that had been stopped for automatic review earlier, which is what It will enable the company to prevent a large and unlimited number of attempts to abuse and cyberbullying through its platform.