We built ToxMod to help with exactly that. Full case study here: modulate.ai/case-studies/pro…

Useless feature. Nobody even talks in game chat anymore. Everyones scared of the ToxMod AI moderation 💀

We’re @hackernoon Company of the Week Voice AI breaks down when things get real: messy audio, emotion, overlap, intent. So we built Velma - the first Ensemble Listening Model, trained on 550M hours of real-world audio, designed to understand speech as it actually happens (not sanitized benchmarks). And ToxMod - real-time voice moderation that detects how something is said, not just the words. This isn’t research. It’s deployed at scale across Fortune 500 platforms today 🌐 Voice is the hardest problem in AI. It’s also the most human. We’re building the infrastructure to make it work -safely, accurately, in real time.

Thats "ToxMod": an AI system that not only listens to you, but also listens to who might be able to hear you, then guesses the age and racial demographic of you AND the people who might be able to hear you, then uses that to decide if what you said is okay.

Social Engagement in games is effectively dead and will NEVER come back. There are two main culprits: Discord Moderation Discord stole the community-building inherent to games by it's very nature and the wide adoption in the gaming sphere. Back in the day, game communities were focused on and built inside a specific game. You used to be able to meet people in game, you liked playing with them, joined up, made a clan, maybe had a small forum somewhere, but that's where your community lived. Discord changed the paradigm: Communities are now tied to PEOPLE, not games. Streamers, friend groups, internet personalities, all built their own communities, and that's where social interaction lives. Game chat is dead because everyone has moved to Discord (except the PS5 owners who don't know how to mute their controllers). Individual discords dedicated to a single game are usually heavily moderated / controlled by the game publishers, making genuine connections tougher to make there. Speaking of moderation, the other nail that killed social engagement is the notion that games have a moral obligation to ensure that nobody is offended while playing their game. Ai based voice and text moderation and heavy penalties has done more to kill in-game talking than any other aspect aside from Discord. I did a deep dive / expose on COD's AI voice mod tool "ToxMod" and it's horrifically Orwellian. Break it's ever changing, situation-dependent rules and you'll find yourself muted, blocked or even banned with no recourse. The risk to your account (of which people can have hundreds of dollars and thousands of hours invested) makes talking in-game extremely risky since you can't even know the rules your conversation is being judged by. Why would a developer even waste time creating game chat anymore?

You ignored this for 7 years and it took market competition for you to change practices rather than customer feedback. All the while you basically refused to aknowledge the existence of SBMM/EBMM. And still you use “toxmod” and ban players with A.I 😒. Won’t be buying.

MODERATED CHAT POWERED BY TOXMOD AI? AUTOMATIC 0/10!

Treyarch: You deserve to be seen and heard Also treyarch: heres toxmod to ban you for saying the same words we put into our game

ToxMod compares what you say to how people who can hear it respond (or the age / ethnicity of the people listening, if it can figure that out) to determine if you’re being offensive. I also think it’s been confusing what your character says with what you say (I don’t have enough data yet to say this conclusively, but available information highly suggests this) and COD rubber stamps bans from modulate vs manual reporting. Also, the ‘select all’ spam report method throws an error now, you’ve got to pick only one.

ToxMod for Gaming by Modulate - moderates voice chat using AI to look for toxic players.

Day 15 Can't wait for @modulate_ai to chatban me and my friends on verdansk returning in @CallofDuty #toxmod #toxmodsucks

Day 13 @CallofDuty decides to chat ban #allofus because they implemented #toxmod by @modulate_ai which is the reason search and destroy lobbies are so quiet

Because @modulate_ai came up with #toxmod AI voice chat moderation which bans people for the simplest trash talk and the reason why everyone now just uses discord and lobbies are quiet AF even though the game needs communication

Content creators should remain weary of using services like YouTube, Gmail, any google products (really) twitch, Instagram and Facebook. Add Activision and ToxMod to that list too. Monitoring voice audio in games and issuing bans on what they deem is inappropriate. They do not support free speech. They are only pretending to support free speech since their candidate lost an election.

Going to keep sharing it because people still don’t realize just how fked up it really is You can't say anything because Toxmod is KILLING Call of Duty youtu.be/mRXmOB0YFv8

It’s because they farmed it out to ToxMod youtu.be/mRXmOB0YFv8?si=vmbW…

Taps sign: ToxMod needs to be deleted from COD. youtu.be/mRXmOB0YFv8?si=PN-j…

This was introduced with the Agents of Sabotage update. It's handled through Modulate's ToxMod for both voice & text chat. You receive a suspension for 30 days after 4 warnings and 3 communication bans. 7 Alerts in total.

Well that happens because your mic will turn on once the game is launched. I got proof they do that. And I was suspicious of them doing that since weeks. Glad I do not own a webcam, they probably turn that on as well without telling you. Combine it with ToxMod and you see why!

I'm comm banned for no reason because the ToxMod chat ban system you have is garbage and pathetic so no