Build a Content-Flagging App with Azure AI Content Safety

As per reports, we stay in a world where almost 500 million tweets and 95 million photos are posted on Twitter and Instagram per day, respectively. The number is only going to increase as time passes by as seen in the rise of their user base. With this growth, creating a safer online space for people to communicate and socialize becomes important. To enable this, content moderation is essential for all social media companies. The Azure AI Content Safety service is one such offering by Microsoft Azure which enables applications to flag content containing harmful content. In this chapter, we are going to briefly discuss about the Azure AI Content Safety service and its use cases and build a content flagger to identify inappropriate content in textual data by leveraging its client SDKs.