SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hive, a leading provider of cloud-based AI solutions including content moderation models used by hundreds of leading online communities, today announced a partnership with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK-based nonprofit dedicated to stopping child sexual abuse online.
“During 2024, KICK processed approximately 5 billion chat messages and 900 million frames of livestreamed video through Hive’s model. This enabled us to enhance our existing real-time moderation capabilities and scale our overall safety program”
As part of the partnership, Hive will integrate IWF datasets into its content moderation offering for all customers using Hive’s models to analyze text in messages or overlaid on video and images. The IWF datasets include the IWF’s URL List, a continuously updated list averaging more than 8,000 webpages a day with confirmed images and videos of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), as well as the IWF Keywords List, a unique list of words, phrases, and codes offenders may use to conceal child sexual abuse imagery on legitimate networks and platforms. Users of Hive’s video and image moderation APIs who are or become IWF members will also be able to access IWF’s “hashes,” unique digital fingerprints of millions of known child sexual abuse images and videos, to identify criminal content and prevent it from being shared on their platforms.
“With the emergence and accessibility of generative AI technology, it is easier than ever before for bad actors to create and distribute harmful online content, including CSAM,” said Kevin Guo, Co-founder and CEO of Hive. “Hive’s AI models for content moderation provide a scalable way to manage moderation risks generally, and our partnership with the IWF allows us to further expand the role we are playing in specifically helping our customers protect the safety and wellbeing of children.”
Hive’s AI content moderation solution has become trusted by hundreds of online platforms to protect users and human moderators from exposure to sexual content, violence and gore, drugs, hate speech, and other categories of harmful content. Hive’s partnership with the IWF bolsters Hive’s capabilities in helping its customers detect and mitigate CSAM on their platforms through a single integrated API.