Published on December 15, 2021
In AI Features

This 24-Year Old Built An Anti-Hate-India Reddit Bot

Fed-up of the hate speech on social media, and after seeing its impact on the mental health of people around her, Barua decided to make a bot herself.

By Meeta Ramnani

Aindriya Barua, a 24-year-old Software Engineer from Tripura, has built a bot that many tech giants couldn’t. She built an Anti-Hate-India Reddit Bot that can detect hate speech from the code-mixed ‘Hinglish’ language. Fed-up of the hate speech on social media, and after seeing its impact on the mental health of people around her, Barua decided to make a bot herself that can detect hate speech in the popularly used ‘Hinglish’ and solve the issue. Barua is currently working with Bangalore-based healthcare technology company - Cerner Corporation as a Software Engineer. A B Tech graduate from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Barua is also an artist. She expresses her views about the world in the form of paintings, but when things got out of control, she used her software knowledge

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Meeta Ramnani

Meeta’s interest lies in finding out real practical applications of technology. At AIM, she writes stories that question the new inventions and the need to develop them. She believes that technology has and will continue to change the world very fast and that it is no more ‘cool’ to be ‘old-school’. If people don’t update themselves with the technology, they will surely be left behind.