Intel Launches AI Service for Gamers with Smooth Adjustment of Curse Flow in Voice Chats
The problem of toxicity in online gaming voice chats has existed since the advent of voice chats themselves. Due to the constant stream of insults, racism, and various types of discrimination, many people have been forced to abandon online despite their love for games. Intel has partnered with Spirit AI to release a beta version of the Bleep app, which lets you record a stream of negative verbal messages in real-time. However, it was not without the “but
Intel’s initiative was perceived ambiguously by Internet users since the program allows you to smoothly adjust the intensity of insults in chats, which in itself already seems absurd.
Meanwhile, Intel believes that a strong word inserted during online battles between friends and insults towards a stranger can be perceived differently. During the Bleep presentation, Roger Chandler, VP of gaming at Intel, said in all seriousness that insults “can be creative in some cases.” Still, there must be limits when it comes to communication between strangers.
Bleep’s interface is equipped with several sliders that allow you to adjust the available level of negative expressions that may sound in-game voice chats. Names, gender discrimination, discrimination based on physical and intellectual characteristics of a person, shaming, aggression, insults of a person’s sexual orientation – these are just a few examples of categories for which it is possible to smoothly adjust the level of permissible insults in the range from “everything is possible” and “a little” to block all kinds of negative statements. Curiously, racism and xenophobia and the filter for using the word with the letter “H” are separated into different categories.
Feeling “a little bit racist” today? Set the slider to “some” (some). What do you think about offensive nicknames? Let’s let the rude ones go a little more? Then set the slider to “most.” Misogyny is in trend today, so let’s let the haters do everything.
The Internet has already managed to make fun of the Intel project. Someone, for example, wondered what “a little bit of racism” is, and someone wanted to be “a little misogynist” or simulate the multiplayer environment of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, when swearing, name-calling, racism, xenophobia, and no one paid attention to sexual harassment in the chat.
Seeing the whole stream of negative comments towards their development, Intel tried to justify themselves. Like, the application is in beta test and may differ from the final product. And in general, this is not a panacea for negative communication on the Web, but the company believes that such developments are a step in the right direction.
“Most of the comments about the program were made based on the screenshots shown in our video and not based on the experience of actually using the application. Some of them are fair; some are not. But we will conclude all these messages. Our goal is to give the user more control and choice, see how it works, and then adapt the application based on the outcome, ” commented Marcus Kennedy, Intel Gaming Manager, to Polygon.
