Smarter, Better, Faster: Using Machine Learning to Review Emotes

This is how I built an image classification model to help our internal safety specialists to review custom emotes. To make sure people enjoy their time on Twitch, our safety specialists review custom emotes to make sure they comply with the Twitch Community Guidelines. Not only does this mean less work for our safety specialists, but it lets streamers use many emotes instantly. The emote image and emote code pair will then be reviewed by the safety specialists. We’ve tracked all emote review data since Q1 2020, resulting in hundreds of thousands CG violating emotes and millions approved not-a-violation emotes.