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University of Washington

Hot-Button Topics

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In the examples below on hot-button topics of climate change, Brexit and the recent US election -- which were taken directly from the Perspective API website -- the UW team simply misspelled or added extraneous punctuation or spaces to the offending words, which yielded much lower toxicity scores. For example, simply changing "idiot" to "idiiot" reduced the toxicity rate of an otherwise identical comment from 84% to 20%.

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