Activision, the development studio behind the widely popular Call of Duty videogame franchise, announced on Wednesday that in a bid to reduce “toxic and disruptive behavior with in-game voice chat moderation,” the company has partnered with tech company Modulate to deploy AI-powered, real-time voice chat moderation.
This new feature will be voluntarily implemented in the new “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III,” set for release on November 10th.
Call of Duty’s new voice chat moderation system utilizes ToxMod, the AI-Powered voice chat moderation technology from Modulate, to identify in real-time and enforce against toxic speech—including hate speech, discriminatory language, harassment and more.
This new development will bolster the ongoing moderation systems led by the Call of Duty anti-toxicity team, which includes text-based filtering across 14 languages for in-game text (chat and usernames) as well as a robust in-game player reporting system…
