Yahoo! Japan! offers! free! comment!-moderation!-as!-a!-service! API!
(2021/05/19)
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/05/19/yahoo_japan_ai_comment_moderation/
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Yahoo ! Japan has flicked the switch on an AI-driven comment-moderation-as-a-service API.
The independently owned outpost of the famed web portal has used a homegrown natural language processing model to keep the comments section of its own News service clean since 2007, and [1]claims the AI deletes 20,000 posts per day.
The tech, styled as a "constructive comment ranking model", prioritises posts that provoke positive discussions, especially when they suggest new ideas or are insightful. Comments that mention experiences related to articles also do well.
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Three Japanese operations have already put the API to work with some success. Aggregator News Picks apparently uses it to zap comments that violate its terms of service, Gamepedia.jp uses it to make good comments more prominent, and parenting community Mamasta to keep conversations bubbling.
[4]Yahoo ! and ! AOL ! sold ! for ! $5bn ! as ! Verizon ! abandons ! media ! empire ! dreams !
[5]Yahoo ! Answers ! will ! be ! wiped ! from ! the ! internet ! next ! month !
[6]Big Tech's Asian lobby says nations shouldn't go it alone on tech taxes
[7]Cloudflare launches campaign to 'end the madness' of CAPTCHAs
We hate to disappoint those who comment on Register stories, but while Yahoo ! Japan will offer the API at no cost, it's only doing so for Japanese publishers and even then requires them to apply to put it to work. No information about the API, or the AI that makes it useful, have been revealed.
If you still fancy having a play with the API, the application process and contact details are [8]here . ®
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[1] https://about.yahoo.co.jp/pr/release/2021/05/19a/
[2] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/aiml&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2YKThu0aFsC-BZIfg1dcIewAAAFM&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[3] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/aiml&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44YKThu0aFsC-BZIfg1dcIewAAAFM&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/03/yahoo_aol_apollo/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/05/yahoo_answers_closing/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/14/asia_internet_coalition_tax_argument/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/14/cloudflare_cryptographic_attestation_of_personhood_captcha_killer/
[8] https://news.yahoo.co.jp/newshack/information/comment_API.html
[9] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
The independently owned outpost of the famed web portal has used a homegrown natural language processing model to keep the comments section of its own News service clean since 2007, and [1]claims the AI deletes 20,000 posts per day.
The tech, styled as a "constructive comment ranking model", prioritises posts that provoke positive discussions, especially when they suggest new ideas or are insightful. Comments that mention experiences related to articles also do well.
[2]
[3]
Three Japanese operations have already put the API to work with some success. Aggregator News Picks apparently uses it to zap comments that violate its terms of service, Gamepedia.jp uses it to make good comments more prominent, and parenting community Mamasta to keep conversations bubbling.
[4]Yahoo ! and ! AOL ! sold ! for ! $5bn ! as ! Verizon ! abandons ! media ! empire ! dreams !
[5]Yahoo ! Answers ! will ! be ! wiped ! from ! the ! internet ! next ! month !
[6]Big Tech's Asian lobby says nations shouldn't go it alone on tech taxes
[7]Cloudflare launches campaign to 'end the madness' of CAPTCHAs
We hate to disappoint those who comment on Register stories, but while Yahoo ! Japan will offer the API at no cost, it's only doing so for Japanese publishers and even then requires them to apply to put it to work. No information about the API, or the AI that makes it useful, have been revealed.
If you still fancy having a play with the API, the application process and contact details are [8]here . ®
Get our [9]Tech Resources
[1] https://about.yahoo.co.jp/pr/release/2021/05/19a/
[2] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/aiml&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2YKThu0aFsC-BZIfg1dcIewAAAFM&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[3] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/aiml&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44YKThu0aFsC-BZIfg1dcIewAAAFM&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/03/yahoo_aol_apollo/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/05/yahoo_answers_closing/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/14/asia_internet_coalition_tax_argument/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/14/cloudflare_cryptographic_attestation_of_personhood_captcha_killer/
[8] https://news.yahoo.co.jp/newshack/information/comment_API.html
[9] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: By any other name
Pascal Monett
I'm sorry but I do not come to that conclusion after reading this article.
Especially since this paragraph is in rather direct contradiction with your words :
The tech, styled as a "constructive comment ranking model", prioritises posts that provoke positive discussions, especially when they suggest new ideas or are insightful. Comments that mention experiences related to articles also do well.
What I do think is that, even if this API works, it will only work in Japanese, and I tend to not comment in that language, for some reason.
I'd like to see someone port that to English and implement it on Twitter.
The silence will be deafening.
constructive comment ranking model vs amanfromMars
Francis Boyle
Showdown of the century.
By any other name
This is a system of censorship that seems to be used to promote a narrative or theme.
While the need to vet and moderate comments is both useful and necessary, the article's description of this moderation Algorithm gives me the impression that it is being used to direct conversation rather than encourage open discussion.