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Hindsight pitches a $1M guarantee as Perspective API ends

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Starting January 1, any moderation pipeline calling Perspective will fail. Google’s Jigsaw unit shuts the service down on December 31, ending one of the most widely used tools for scoring online comments for toxicity. For platforms, publishers, marketplaces, and communities built on it, the next few months bring an unwelcome decision. Find a replacement, and fast.

Hindsight wants to be that replacement. But rather than pitching a standard vendor swap, it is offering something no AI content moderation vendor has offered before, a professional guarantee against harm caused by content its model misses.

“Coded Language is the new slur, but it’s ridiculously hard to catch consistently,” said Dean Gebert, Hindsight’s Founder. “And a like-for-like model or tool swap just moves Perspective’s blind spots to a different vendor.”

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