Hot-Button Topics (IMAGE) University of Washington Caption 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%. Credit University of Washington Usage Restrictions With credit License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.