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Riot Games and Ubisoft team up on machine learning to detect harmful game chat

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Ubisoft and Riot Games have teamed up to share machine learning data so they can more easily detect harmful chat in multiplayer games.

The “Zero Harm in Comms” research project is intended to develop better AI systems that can detect toxic behavior in games, said Yves Jacquier, executive director of Ubisoft La Forge, and Wesley Kerr, director of software engineering at Riot Games, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.