Yahoo has developed a machine learning algorithm to detect aggressive and abusive comments online . The algorithm was able to identify hateful comments successfully in 90 % of users , having been trained using over 100 million comments from Yahoo 's New and online sites . If a post is flagged as abusive by the algorithm , it is either automatically deleted or passed on to a human moderator to decide . The algorithm does however struggle to identify sarcastic comments and newer ways to express hate .
Yahoo has developed a machine learning algorithm to detect aggressive and abusive comments online. The algorithm was able to identify hateful speech successfully in 90% of cases, having been trained using over one million comments from Yahoo's New and Finance sites. If a post is flagged as abusive by the algorithm, it is either automatically deleted or forwarded on to a human moderator to decide. The algorithm does however struggle to identify sarcastic comments and newer ways to express hate.