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AI tries to help you protect your children from cyberbullying

By Alice Klein

19 October 2018

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AI could help spot cyberbullying

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Cyberbullying has become a scourge of social media, but artificial intelligence is learning to detect and filter out hurtful posts before they reach vulnerable users.

About one-third of teenagers say they have been bullied online. Some victims have taken their own lives – including 14-year-old Australian schoolgirl Amy Everett in January – prompting governments to . However, these measures fail to prevent exposure to cyberbullying in the first place.

at Ghent University in Belgium and his colleagues wondered if they could train a machine learning…

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