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Why oh why does profanity ever need to be filtered out?
by schrototo 15y ago
Why oh why does profanity ever need to be filtered out?
- maweaver 15y ago> you could try using the Google Profanity API to avoid displaying ads on pages that contain profanities I assume that must be a requirement of some ad networks
- algorias 15y agoPossibly because there's enough of it that it would affect statistical algorithms involving language processing (e.g. google translate)
- mithaler 15y agoHere's a simple example of a case where profanity filtering is almost certainly a good thing: say you have a voice transcription program (which Google makes available as part of Android). Voice transcription is an error-prone process. Wouldn't it be good to be able to avoid returning bad words that the voice transcription program mistakenly thought were there?