ModBot is an AI powered general-purpose chat moderation discord bot which can be used to filter messages of any topic without any custom fine-tuning or training. It works out of the box for any topic to be filtered or restricted in a channel.
A distilbart model finetuned for natural language inference is repurposed for zero-shot text classification to classify messages into the filter categories. This makes the system work for almost all topics without the need of any fine-tuning on custom topics.
- Create your bot account and add it to your server. Make sure you give the bot the permissions to
manage messagesand enable themessage contentprivileged intents. - Install the required python libraries with
pip install -r requirements.txt.
- Set a
DISCORDenvironment variable with your bot's secret client token. - Edit the text_filters.txt file with the topics you want to restrict. Each new topic should be a new line.
- Run the
modbot.pyscript withpython modbot.py. Voila! Your bot is not active and will automatically delete messages which belong to the topics mentioned in your filter. You can edit the text_filters.txt file while the bot is running without the need to restart the bot for new filters.
- It can be used for filtering messages which contain hate speech, racism, or other such disrespectful slurs.
- You can use this bot for keeping the chat of your users on-topic in a channel and remove off-topic messages.
- This is a purely experimental project and not ready for use in large communities. The AI used may contain social biases and can even wrongly delete messages.
- Ideally, if you want to deploy it to your discord server, you may want to implement a grievance system so users can report wrongfully deleted messages. You might also want to implement a feedback loop to improve the model overtime.
- An ensemble of models might even work better using different variants of distilbart.
- All in all, use this model at your own risk.