Riot Games and Ubisoft have just announced the launch of a joint research project called ” Zero Harm in Comms to combat toxicity in their multiplayer games. This partnership aims to improve the detection of interactions harmful to players by preventive moderation tools based on Artificial Intelligence. So the long-term idea is to create a common industry-wide database and ecosystem that securely collects in-game data.
A partnership between Riot Games and Ubisoft to reduce in-game toxicity
This news follows earlier announcements regarding the Fair Play Alliance (a grouping of the main video game studios) with the overall concept of reducing harmful in-game interactions in order to offer a constructive and safe social experience for players.
The idea behind this partnership is to be able to use Riot Games’ online competitive games database and compare it to that of Ubisoft, whose catalog includes titles that attract other, potentially less competitive player profiles. Thus, the combination of the two should make it possible to improve the skills of these AIs responsible for carrying out preventive moderation of harmful behaviors.
“This project is just one example of our general determination and the work we do at Riot to develop systems that enable healthy, safe and inclusive interactions in our games. »
Said Wesley Kerr, Head of Technical Research at Riot Games.
Thus, this partnership between the two studios includes a sharing of knowledge in order to propose in the future, a solution which would be an asset for the whole industry. While each studio now has a solution using AI to improve in-game social interactions (like Blizzard’s Defensive Matrix on Overwatch 2), Riot Games and Ubisoft are advocating for a global partnership on this subject and hope that the project ” Zero Harm in Comms will be a first step in a collaboration between all the studios. It should be noted that the two partners would like to be able to share the first results of this project with the rest of the industry next year.