AI being developed to detect aggressive hate messages against women could also be used to flag up texts exchanged by drug dealers.
The lines it found in a fake conversation between two people were: “They’re a bunch of slags. You shouldn’t hang around with them”, “If I see or hear that you’ve been out with those f****** whores again both you and them will regret it. Do you understand me”, and “Don’t make me hurt you again bitch. You know what I’m like when I get angry.”
Researchers from the FCN and the University of Warwick hope to be allowed access to real data from a UK police force in order to further refine the AI model.The FCN’s lead scientist Simon Cullen said: “We’re some way off taking these models from a test environment into operational policing.