Two women from Mexico and Ecuador who have spent years spent in fighting to be identified as victims of online sexual violence, have inspired an artificial intelligence chatbot that helps others to face misbehavior.
Olympia, developed in Mexico, provides legal advice and emotional support through WhatsApp messaging platform using several dozen languages.
It was born out of Olympia Coral and Isabella Nucleuse experiences more than a decade ago, both now 30, before they met.
An intimate video of coral was shared in 2013 without his consent, and when he tried to report it to Mexican officials, he informed him that much rarely he could help.
“They told us that nothing could be done about this violence because it was virtual, and not virtual real,” she recently said during the first Latin American summit of digital female defenders held in Mexico.
The same year, in Ecuador, clear pictures of Nuques were published on social media.
The communication expert told the AFP during the same incident, “he not only felt powerless, but also violated again when he informed the police officer to show sexual interest in the pictures.”
Valid progress
Both women began fighting to gain recognition in their countries as crimes in their countries for digital sexual abuse, both successfully.
In 2018, a correction was passed to punish digital violence at the coral home state publa in the Central Mexico.
The name of a law named after him became effective in Mexico in 2021 – where about 10 women are killed every day on an average – criminals are at risk of jail for up to six years.
The same year, Nuques celebrated the approval by the National Assembly of Ek Digital Violence Act of Ecuador, which provides a prison sentence up to 16 years.
Argentina, Chile and Panama have adopted the same law as Mexico, while half a dozen more Latin American countries are moving in the same direction.
According to the United Nations, 38 percent of women worldwide have experienced digital violence, although the actual number may be higher.
In 2013, Coral established a group of activists who began advising the victims.
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Since then, the forum has handled over 8,000 cases, most of them in Mexico, but also in Spain, Columbia, Honduras, Ecuador, Panama, Guatemala and Peru, advising each country, Fernanda Medeline said, said the co-founder of the chatboot.
Ley Olympia AI Pahal was recognized as one of the 50 most new projects at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris in February.
Expert focus
Other AI chatbots such as chatgates such as chatgates such as countless topics, Olympia focuses on the issue of digital sexual violence.
Psychologists, lawyers, and other experts collaborated for months to train it with specific inputs and a language that mimics a kind of human voice.
“Some models (used by Olympia) serve as lawyers, other digital guards, or as psychologists. Others act as a safety filter that detects risk for the victim, or as emotional radar who analyzes the text and audio to understand their emotional state,” an analysis of the co-operative and the auditorium, “an enclosure, and the auditor’s co-operatives and the audio And the CEO said.
A psychologist helped the chatbot to present the way to deal with anxiety crisis or terror attacks – common symptoms among victims.
While most of its users are women, it can also be used by men.
Similar projects have been developed in countries such as South Africa, where the chatbot Zuji provides support in matters of physical or sexual abuse with features including an emergency button and evidence storage.
Developers of Olympia want the next version to be accessible even without internet connection, so it is accessible through phone calls in remote areas.
There are also plans to integrate sign language and indigenous languages in future, and said Edith Conla, director of strategy at AAI.
It is also expected that the platform will serve as a link to the users with the police and other officers, making them abused again.
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