Inspiration
There's a lot of negativity online and it sucks having to read it all of the time so we made something to make Youtube a bit more sunshine and rainbows in the comment section.
What it does
It takes in YouTube comments and determines if it is a hate comment. If it is, it would hide the comment and you'd only see positive or neutral comments.
How we built it
We made a chome extension that takes in Youtube comments, runs a sentiment analysis on it and determines whether or not to hide the comments.
Challenges we ran into
We had trouble building the model for sentiment analysis on the comments. The dataset we had was unbalanced and there were too many words that the training set never saw. The model also took a long time to train so it was hard to fine-tune the model.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're proud of building something that works.
What we learned
Having a balanced dataset is important.
What's next for Hide Youtube Hate Comments
We would add a pre-trained embedding and host it on an AWS server.
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