Example chat message toxicity assessment process

Abstract

Using user-specific prediction models, it is possible to present an individualized view of messages generated by users playing a shared instance of a video game. Further, users with different subjective views of what is offensive may be presented with different forms or annotations of a message. By personalizing the views of messages generated by users, it is possible to reduce or eliminate the toxic environment that sometimes forms when players, who may be strangers to each other and may be located in disparate locations play a shared instance of a video game. Further, the user-specific prediction models may be adapted to filter or otherwise annotate other undesirable messages that may not be offensive, such as a message generated by one user in a video game that includes a solution to an in-game puzzle that another user may not desire to read as it may spoil the challenge for the user.