Canary

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  Extension

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  Content Warning

What's Canary?

Drawing inspiration from the canary in a coal mine, Canary is designed to detect early signs of potentially distressing or triggering content in digital spaces. Canary is a Chrome browser extension that proactively takes action to block the content and provides a detailed score, empowering users to control the information they are exposed to online.

Our project leverages toxic-bert, a 109-million-parameter large language model (LLM) specifically trained to detect and classify offensive content online. We have further fine-tuned the model to effectively parse website text and assign a Canary Score that reflects the content's level of sensitive material. In addition to this intelligent evaluation system, users can create a custom keyword list and any occurrence of these keywords will be flagged during Canary's evaluation of a website.

DEI

By detecting and blocking harmful material before it reaches the user, Canary promotes mental well-being and empowers people to navigate digital spaces with confidence. This not only aids in protecting mental health but also advances Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) by fostering a more inclusive and respectful internet environment for everyone.

Built With

• ai
• css
• defang
• flask
• html5
• hugging-face
• javascript
• llm
• python