Top men’s tennis names shielded from ‘severe’ abuse by ATP AI tool | Tennis News

First-year results show AI tool scanned 3.1m digital posts in drive to protect to tennis players from harmful content.

Top men’s tennis players were shielded from more than 162,000 social media comments containing “severe” abuse during the first year of the artificial intelligence-powered ATP Safe Sport initiative, the sport’s governing body has announced.

The abusive messages, which targeted 245 players, were found and then hidden in real time as the system scanned more than 3.1…