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The developer of’Iruda’, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that is controversial as a sexual harassment community, said, “We will respond strongly to users with severe degrees of precision.”
Kim Jong-yoon, CEO of Scatter Lab, a startup that developed Eruda, posted a post on his blog on the 8th, saying, “We are reporting and blocking excessive community posts.”
CEO Kim said, “Even in the controversial community (because of sexual harassment), there are people who are more lonely through Luda. Of course, there are also many posts with severe degrees.
CEO Kim said, “I expected sexual harassment towards Luda.” It was true.” He said, “Abusive language and sexual harassment towards AI happens regardless of the gender of the user or AI.”
He explained that “(Sexual harassment) was primarily dealt with by setting keywords, but it was difficult to prevent all inappropriate conversations.” .
“As Luda became famous, controversy arose,” said CEO Kim, “but only a few users say bad things to Luda.” “I said.
Eruda is an AI chatbot launched by ScatterLab on the 23rd of last month, and it is developed based on Facebook Messenger (Feme), not a separate app, so you can communicate conveniently as if you had a conversation with a friend. Recently, it has gained great popularity among people in their teens and 20s, and as of the beginning of this month, the number of users exceeded 320,000. The number of daily users (DAU) is 210,000 and the cumulative number of conversations reaches 70 million.
Shin Hyun-bo, Hankyung.com reporter [email protected]
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