Roblox is a popular online gaming platform for children. But it's also a place where people who want to exploit children know they can find an audience. On Thursday, Roblox announced Roblox Sentinel, ...

Roblox’s latest safety update is reshaping how millions of users communicate — and not everyone is happy about it. After the platform began requiring AI-based age verification to unlock chat features, ...

Roblox begins testing a feature that utilizes AI in an effort to make chat safer for all players, while still giving them ways to be included.

Built to spot grooming and child endangerment through chat pattern analysis. Sentinel scans over six billion messages daily in real-time. Trained on past violations of Roblox’s child-endangerment ...

Real-time chat rephrasing removes or alters banned words and phrases in messages. Real-time chat rephrasing removes or alters banned words and phrases in messages. is a news writer covering all things ...

At launch, the system focuses mainly on automatically rewriting profanity in chat. Instead of showing “#####”, messages such as “Hurry tf up!” may appear as “Hurry up!”. Roblox says the system is ...

The AI system has detected and reported 1,200 cases to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children this year. Dashia is the consumer insights editor for CNET. She specializes in data-driven ...