Roblox Corporation announced the rollout of real-time chat rephrasing, an AI-powered feature designed to keep gameplay fluid while maintaining civility within chat. Roblox is also significantly enhancing its core text filters for communication on the platform to improve detections of violative messages or attempts to bypass Community Standards. Real-time chat rephrasing for respectful chat.
Every day, millions of people connect and play on Roblox where real-time communication is important for user expression and coordinating gameplay. When users encounter strings of '####' because filters have blocked inappropriate language, chats can be disrupted and hard to follow. To keep gameplay chat flowing naturally for users, Roblox is leveraging AI to automatically rephrase profanity.
Rather than displaying only hashmarks, filtered text will be translated into more respectful language that remains closer to the user?s original intent. When a message violates Roblox?s profanity policy, everyone in the chat is notified that the text has been rephrased to keep things civil. While rephrasing reduces some of the disruption in the chat, Roblox?s multilayered safety system remains in effect for more serious behavior.
Rephrasing is available exclusively for in-experience chat between age-checked users in similar age groups and is supported in all languages currently available through Roblox?s automatic translation tools. In May 2025, Roblox introduced proactive, real-time warnings to help users understand Roblox?s policies and to prompt them to reconsider their language next time. In experiments last year, Roblox saw that issuing in-experience text chat notifications and time-outs resulted in a 5% reduction in filtered chat messages and a 6% reduction in consequences from abuse reports.
Roblox is also making significant improvements to its text filtering system. Roblox is upgrading its text filter to detect more variations of language that breaks its Community Standards. Early results from Roblox?s testing show significant improvements in detecting leet-speak, or letters replaced with numbers or symbols, and more sophisticated attempts to bypass filters.
This has allowed Roblox to reduce the prevalence of false negatives for sharing or soliciting personal information, like social handles or phone numbers, by 20x. No system is perfect, but these advancements represent a major milestone in supporting safe, civil, and fun communication on Roblox.
