Using machine learning to reduce toxicity online

Perspective API can help mitigate toxicity and ensure healthy dialogue online.

Toxicity online poses a serious challenge for platforms and publishers. Online abuse and harassment silence important voices in conversation, forcing already marginalized people offline.

What is Perspective?

Perspective is a free API that uses machine learning to identify "toxic We define toxicity as a rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable comment that is likely to make someone leave a discussion." comments, making it easier to host better conversations online.

See how it works for yourself:

Type a sentence into the box to see its toxicity score. Perspective returns a percentage that represents the likelihood that someone will perceive the text as toxic.

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Is this comment toxic?

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toxic
obscene
insulting
threatening

comments.

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Must be ≥ %

likely to be perceived as toxic with a message that says,

x% likely to be toxic.
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Show positive feedback when a comment is under

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Must be < %

likely to be perceived as toxic with a message that says

x% likely to be toxic. Great job!
Thank you for your positive contribution to our community!
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Anything in between - % should get a message like,

We're not sure about that.
Unsure if this follows community guidelines (x%)
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              <!-- Perspective API widget code -->
              <html>
               <head>
                <script src='https://storage.googleapis.com/checker_source/perspective_authorship_widget.js'></script>
               </head>
               <body>
                <textarea id='client_text_area'></textarea>
                <convai-checker
                   input-id='client_text_area'
                   demo-settings-json="{
                    &quot;gradientColors&quot;: [&quot;#25C1F9&quot;,&quot;#7C4DFF&quot;,&quot;#D400F9&quot;],
                    &quot;toxicScoreThreshold&quot;:&quot;0.7&quot;,
                    &quot;neutralScoreThreshold&quot;:&quot;0.3&quot;,
                    &quot;showFeedbackForNeutralScores&quot;: false,
                    &quot;showFeedbackForLowScores&quot;: false,
                    &quot;feedbackText&quot;: [&quot;x% likely to be toxic. Great job!&quot;,&quot;We're not sure about that.&quot;,&quot;x% likely to be toxic. Please edit.&quot;],
                    &quot;loadingIconStyle&quot;: &quot;circle_square_diamond&quot;,
                    &quot;usePluginEndpoint&quot;: true,
                    & &quot;modelName&quot;: &quot;TOXICITY&quot;,
                    &quot;communityId&quot;: &quot;plugin-user_1610529593886-239823&quot;,
                    &quot;fontFamily&quot;: &quot;Merriweather, serif&quot;
                    }">
                </convai-checker>
               </body>
              </html>
            

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What can you build with Perspective?

Publishers, platforms, and individuals can use Perspective to power a variety of different use cases, in comment sections, forums, or any text-based conversations. Developers integrate and customize Perspective for many different audiences.

For moderators

Moderators use Perspective to quickly prioritize and review comments that have been reported.

For commenters

Perspective can give feedback to commenters who post toxic comments.

For readers

Developers create tools so readers can control which comments they see, like hiding comments.

Why should you use Perspective?

Perspective has been shown to increase engagement by helping platforms and publishers create safe environments for conversation, and by helping individuals make healthier contributions online.