The AI that supported over 25,000 people
in suicidal crisis.

Suicide rates have been historically high among Veterans, with the estimated risk being 57% higher than that of the general population. In order to investigate the suicidal tendencies among this group, we collected over 41,000 posts from VA Disability Claims Community Forums – Hadit.com.

The purpose of Samurai is to detect and prevent violence, making it an essential asset for educational institutions that use platforms such as Webex for remote learning and communication.

Moreover, it has a positive impact on the schools’ reputation. By showcasing a reduced incidence of aggressive behavior, institutions can attract parents; preference and potentially  enhance students’ performance in international educational rankings.

● Over 130 violations of Community Guidelines were detected by Samurai Guardian each day

● 30% more Community Guideline violations were detected by Samurai Guardian and would be automatically removed when compared to human moderators.

● Less than 3% of Community Guideline violations were removed by moderators without being detected by Samurai Guardian.

Over 3 months we processed over 340,000 usernames coming from Freedom Games. Some of them contained two or more identical usernames. After removing them, circa 270,000 unique usernames remained, out of which circa 12,000 were detected as toxic. It means that 4.27% of all username attempts were blocked because of violating the community standards.

Our data-based analysis shows that we successfully detected 88.8% of all toxic usernames (recall) with a precision of 99.22%.

The main objective of our experiment was to test whether the level of cyberviolence on Reddit can be significantly decreased by community-driven, counter-speech interventions conducted by users in partnership with Artificial Intelligence.

Even if your game does not have a huge community focused on Discord, or you have a community that allows a lot of content that is not allowed on other servers – Samurai can help you. Thanks to toxicity verification and automatic moderation, you can effectively increase player retention and satisfaction when playing the game.

Samurai Labs together with INACH created an exercise for the participants of a counter speech course in which AI delivered cases of hate speech in real-time on 4 chan with a high precision. Thanks to its ability to scan millions of conversations within seconds, the most important needs of the course were addressed and the following value was created:

• The possibility of evaluating the knowledge of trainees on real cases, straight after completing the course
• Enabling people to test themselves and make real impact in the digital world with the acquired knowledge
• The ability to positively model discussions on the web without the need to manually search for hate speech threads, saving time and hussle

Samurai was engaged to develop AI models and analyze posts on Twitter and YouTube to detect violent speech acts against Poles. At the latter stage of the project Samurai’s data aim to power up HateLab custom dashboard for better measuring violence before and after Brexit, alerting authorities to trends and immediate threats.

After analyzing the data, it turned out that without the help of penalties and bans, James reduced the subreddit’s aggression level by 19%. Moreover, the antisocial activity of those who received the interventions decreased in other Reddit groups as well.

There is reason to suspect that the interventions had a positive impact on overall user behavior rather than just motivating the audience to find another place to attack others.

Samurai Labs and Khoros faced the challenge of solving the issue and creating a system that would protect not only community’s users from harmful content, but also take care of the mental health of moderators who are most exposed.