Chat roulette is on the rise again, this time with AI

Years ago when espresso shops were starting to be the big thing, I though a great name for a chain of them would be "BRB".

Came here to say this. Chatroulette added unnecessary 'features' that just introduced more friction into the experience (as it were). Which seems to have meant users gravitating to Omegle's bare bones (no pun intended) approach.

Chatroulette seems to be using a similar method of seperation.

From the article:

It created a filtered channel, now known as Random Chat, designed to exclude nudity, alongside an Unmoderated channel.

Strangely, they intend to discontinue the unfiltered section in the near future.

The unfiltered channel remains popular, but usage is shrinking, and Ternovskiy plans to eliminate it by the middle of 2021.

My gut feeling is that will just lead to mature content creators attempting to trick the filter, and I imagine they will be successful.

Hey there, This was somewhat mentioned in other comments but I wonder why did you decide to invest such an effort on ML solutions whereas UX (splitting to filtered and unfiltered) seems to yield good results. Was it marketing?

Sounds boring.