This AI system warns you about spoilers in online reviews

Researchers have developed an AI-based system that can figure out spoilers in online reviews of books and TV shows.

“Spoilers are everywhere on the Internet and are very common on social media. As Internet users, we understand the pain of spoilers, and how they can ruin one’s experience,” said one of the paper’s senior authors, Ndapa Nakashole.

Some websites allow people to manually flag their posts with tags that serve as ‘spoiler ahead’ warning signs. But this doesn’t always happen. So researchers, who presented the study at Association for Computational Linguistics, wanted to develop an artificial intelligence tool powered by neural networks to automatically detect spoilers. They named the tool SpoilerNet.