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Online dating app Tinder is launching a new feature that makes users think twice before sending potentially offensive or inappropriate messages to their matches.
The said feature, called “Are You Sure?” (AYS?), was created in an attempt to protect users from harassment, the company said in a release on May 20.
Through AYS?, users get prompts in real time when composing a message that may contain inappropriate words or phrases.
This is possible through the use of artifical intelligence (AI) that detects “harmful language and proactively intervenes to warn the sender their message may be offensive, asking them to pause before hitting send.”
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“Members who saw the AYS? prompt were less likely to be reported for inappropriate messages over the next month, which indicates AYS? is changing longer-term behavior, not just behavior in one conversation,” the company said.
Tinder disclosed that AYS? reduced inappropriate language in messages sent by over 10% of users during the early testing phase.
