Roblox's New AI Tool Rephrases Player Chats to Remove Banned Language

Video games these days involve chatting, and when people are given the chance to chat, they're not always going to keep it G-rated. The popular online game-creation platform Roblox, among many other games, has used simple substitution systems to censor chats for years. The game would simply remove the offending word and replace it with a bunch of pound signs. Now, Roblox is tapping AI to rephrase the offending phrase rather than just block out its letters.

"Using AI filters to block problematic text (visible to users as #####) has always been central to our approach to safety and increasing civility," said Rajiv Bhatia, Roblox VP of User and Discovery Product, in a blog post. "Today, we're adding an additional feature to help keep in-experience text chat civil: We're ...