Google’s comment-ranking system will be a hit with the alt-right

The underlying API used to determine “toxicity” scores phrases like “I am a gay black woman” as 87 percent toxicity, and phrases like “I am a man” as the least toxic. The API, called Perspective, is made by Google’s Alphabet within its Jigsaw incubator. When reached for a comment, a spokesperson for Jigsaw told Engadget, …

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