Team India had to face a crushing defeat of 0-3 in the test series at the hands of New Zealand. Veteran players like Virat Kohli-Rohit Sharma failed in this series. Since then, he is being trolled fiercely on social media and bad comments are being made. Similarly, the Indian women's cricket team had to face many abuses after being eliminated in the first round of the T20 World Cup. Despite various efforts, such activities have not been able to be controlled, but now the International Cricket Council has taken a step which will provide relief to the players.

Trolling will be controlled with the help of AI

A report by ESPN-Cricinfo has revealed that ICC has successfully trialled special software in collaboration with a technology company. This software based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) identifies and deletes hateful comments made on the accounts of players, their partners or teams on social media. The ICC successfully tested it during the recently held Women's T20 World Cup 2024, due to which the hope of expanding its scope in the future has increased.

It has been told in the report that during the World Cup, this AI tool of 'GoBubble' company was tested on the social media accounts of about 60 players and 8 different teams. During the entire World Cup, this tool monitored about 14,95,149 comments, out of which racism, sexism, homophobia (hateful comments related to homosexuality) and other different types of abuse were found in 2.71 lakh comments. The ICC explained the reason behind this decision and said that this was done with the aim of involving more and more girls in cricket, so that they can avoid bad comments online.

How does this tool work?

The specialty of this tool is that it can be customized according to different players or teams. That is, special types of abusive words are used for a team or player. Apart from this, it catches abusive or hateful words used in English or other languages ​​and then deletes them or hides them.

Not only bad and disrespectful comments, but the tool also hides comments from bot accounts that promote cryptocurrency or other types of advertisements. Currently, ICC has limited it only to women's cricket and any women cricketer or team can contact ICC and take advantage of it. The company aims to make it available for male cricketers also in the coming time.