Perspective API
A REST API service for online toxicity detection developed by Jigsaw, a team within Google. It operates on a per-request pricing model and is particularly effective for content moderation in English and select European languages.
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Perspective API is an online content toxicity detection service developed by Google's Jigsaw team, accessed via a REST API and billed by request volume.
OpenAI provides the Moderation API and Google provides the Perspective API as off-the-shelf content moderation tools, but both are designed for general use.
Google's Perspective API is based on the BERT family of models and scores dimensions such as 'toxicity,' 'insult,' and 'threat' separately, returning probability values from 0 to 1
Akismet and Perspective API struggle to effectively handle adversarial text that bypasses filters using homophonic characters or zero-width characters, and their multilingual support is uneven
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Perspective API is an online content toxicity detection service developed by Google's Jigsaw team, accessed via a REST API and billed by request volume.
50%UnverifiedOpenAI provides the Moderation API and Google provides the Perspective API as off-the-shelf content moderation tools, but both are designed for general use.
50%UnverifiedGoogle's Perspective API is based on the BERT family of models and scores dimensions such as 'toxicity,' 'insult,' and 'threat' separately, returning probability values from 0 to 1
50%UnverifiedAkismet and Perspective API struggle to effectively handle adversarial text that bypasses filters using homophonic characters or zero-width characters, and their multilingual support is uneven
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