A Williamsville East High School student is fighting back against cyberbullying by using an app created to limit any offensive language.
17-year-old Grant Wang is an inventor of the “ML Offense App” that was created two years ago after the death of his close friend.
“Tragically losing a friend due to cyberbullying, I wanted to combat the issue of offensive language on social media,” says Wang.
Wang says the name of his invention can have two meanings.
“So ML can stand for machine learning or it can stand for multilingual, so my project is multilingual,” he explains. “It works in 100 different languages, and it’s also a machine learning model.”
Wang explained more about how it works.
“If we input the multilingual sentence look at ‘aqlow’ meaning a miser in Chinese and clicked predict,” he says. “We get that this sentence is offensive and targets an individual.”
Wang’s hard work has paid off.
He’s one of the 40 finalists who will compete at a national science competition in Washington D.C.