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Riot Games, developer of the free first-person shooter (FPS) game braveand the It will start monitoring the players’ voice communications On July 13 (via PCGamer† The game company says it will help train the language models it will eventually use when evaluating player reports for all of its games.

Riot initially announced this change in April 2021 after its update privacy policy† New terms allow Riot to “record and potentially evaluate voice data when using Riot’s voice communications channels” to combat hate speech and voice chat harassment. Riot says it will analyze the recordings when a player flags someone with offensive or offensive comments. This, in turn, would help the company determine whether the reported player has violated its policy and take action accordingly.

Riot won’t begin evaluating player reports based on these recordings yet — it’s using the information it collects to help build the beta version of the system that it expects to roll out later this year. At this time, Riot is evaluating conversations for English speakers only brave North American players. The only way to opt out of this system is to completely disable voice chat or use another means of communication such as Discord.

“We know that before we even think about expanding this tool, we need to make sure it is effective, and if errors do occur, we have systems in place to make sure we can eliminate any false positives (or negatives). Are true,” Riot notes in its announcement.

When this system is actually rolled out, Riot says it will “not actively monitor your live in-game communications” and “may only listen and review audio logs” if disruptive behavior is reported. It also adds that it will delete this information after it resolves the situation, just as it does with reports generated through its text chat systems. However, it is inevitable that privacy issues will arise for some players, just like many Anti-cheat system always on Vanguard which tracks your activity in both and the the outside brave.

A planned reporting system is not the only way brave He tries to suppress toxic players. earlier this year, Let the riots begin brave players Add specific words or phrases to the “silent dictionary” which is supposed to block offensive content in chat.