Have you been using Perspective API for your research?
We found out that it severely overestimates toxicity in German-language messages. 🧵
Check our preprint here:
arxiv.org/abs/2312.12651
Great collaboration with Francesco Pierri, Nogara Gianluca,
Stefano Cresci, Luca Luceri, & Silvia Giordano
Toxic Bias: Perspective API Misreads German as More Toxic
Proprietary public APIs play a crucial and growing role as research tools among social scientists. Among such APIs, Google's machine learning-based Perspective API is extensively utilized for...
