One of the biggest tennis tournaments Wimbledonrecently officially started in London. Many tennis players, both men and women, competed to become the best in the tournament that ends on July 14. Of course, this situation is also reflected on social media. Players can receive many positive or negative reactions on social media.

According to The Guardian, the All England Lawn Tennis Club, which hosts Wimbledon, has taken an interesting step to protect players from online harassment. To prevent this, authorities They started using artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence, analyzing 35 different languages, monitors negative comments from players’ social media accounts

The AI-powered system called Threat Matrix, developed by a company called Signify Group, monitors players’ public social media profiles and observes other users’ shares. The system can analyze 35 different languages, automatically flags comments such as death threats, racism, sexism, from platforms if necessary demands their removal. Even players’ messages can be monitored if they allow it.

As with all sports, many tennis players, especially seniors, can receive hateful comments from social media during such tournaments. Some even say they have had to delete social media from their phones because of the comments.

This situation damages both their psychology and their performance. The aim of the system is to prevent this. Officials say that artificial intelligence will be used in addition to Wimbledon It will also be used during the US Open under the information received.

Threat Matrix, which can be very useful for athletes, also conducted a study in which it followed the tournaments in 2022. In this study, it examined over 1.6 million X-posts and 19,000 Instagram comments sent to 454 players participating in various tennis tournaments in 2022. The results detected 546 offensive posts from 438 accounts. One in four players receives threatening and intimidating messages found. So the situation is pretty bad. We hope it can help players.