Azure AI Content Safety Service
Microsoft introduced a new AI service called “Azure AI Content Safety Service” at the Build conference in May 2023. This new service will inspect for questionable content in any of the following categories. Violent content Hateful content Sexual content Self-harm content The Content Safety service is intended to protect customers’ web sites and social media apps from receiving questionable comments or images. Content maybe text, images, audio, video, or a combination of items (i.e. multi-modal). Users can utilize filters to tweak the severity levels. For example, an outdoor equipment provider may allow images of knives or guns uploaded to their social media, but a school or church may like to prevent those images. Filters are set to Medium by default and can be increased. Turning the filter settings to be less restricted or turned off requires a written application to Microsoft to ensure the customer is t...