Tournament Wimbledon announced that will use artificial intelligence to protect players online harassment. The event organizers will use this technology for the first time through a system that will monitor posts that attack participants. The AI will be able to automatically analyze and report threats of racism, sexism, or death.
According to a report from The keeperThe All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC), one of the organisers of the Wimbledon Championships, will use artificial intelligence to prevent attacks on tennis players. The organiser said it had created a social media monitoring service that Automatically detects and flags offensive messages in 35 languages..
The system known as Threat Matrixuses artificial intelligence to filter messages and submit them for review. If it detects offensive content posted by a person towards a tennis player, the system will analyze it and take action to report it to the authorities.
“It’s not something you see in the public domain at all. You won’t see us shouting about it, but we are basically looking at social media for this type of content and it means we can get information that we haven’t had in the past,” said Jamie Baker, director of the Wimbledon Championships. Baker added that They will use security services if they discover something that worries them..

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According to the product’s website, Threat Matrix monitors content that contains racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and other offensive messages. The system analyzes open source data sources such as social media and the dark webIts creators note that they use AI’s natural language understanding to identify an object and take action.
Due to the large amount of data, Threat Matrix has to filter content coming from bots. The technology is customizable and can be adapted to any competition, club or type of content. In addition, the system relies on human reviewerswho will analyze the content and produce reports with evidence.
Using artificial intelligence, we span the issue across multiple networks and identify dangerous threats and incitement, providing a higher level of analysis of the size and scope of the problem.
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According to Baker, the Threat Matrix tracked over 1.6 million X posts and 19,000 Instagram comments is aimed at hundreds of professional players. The system found that Every fourth tennis player is subjected to insults on social mediaThe manager added that they would first consult with players about harassment before using the technology.
The system has already proven its effectiveness at the Rugby World Cup, after a man was jailed for threatening to kill a referee and his wife via Facebook messages. After its deployment at Wimbledon, those responsible for Threat Matrix mentioned that they would be using it at the US Open, the latest Grand SlI am a year old.
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