From Notepad AI to Social Media: How Can Text Style Transformation Mitigate Social Harm?
For social media platforms and users, it offers a stylistic transformation approach to mitigate harmful content without censorship, though it is an incremental extension of existing text style transfer methods.
The paper proposes a writing-assistance framework that transforms aggressive or toxic comments into softer, neutral forms to reduce social harm while preserving semantic meaning, introducing an Emotion Drift Index (EDI) metric to quantify emotional change.
The rapid proliferation of harmful and emotionally damaging content on social media platforms has intensified concerns regarding societal harm. While content moderation efforts primarily focus on detecting and removing harmful posts, less attention has been given to mitigating harm through stylistic text transformation while preserving semantic meaning. In this paper, we propose a writing-assistance framework that can reduce societal harm by transforming aggressive, toxic, or emotionally harmful comments into softer, more neutral stylistic forms inspired by Notepad AI, a simple AI writing assistant. Rather than censoring or suppressing speech, we apply controlled stylistic modifications to preserve core informational content while reducing emotional intensity and identity-based attacks. We introduce an Emotion Drift Index (EDI) metric to systematically quantify emotional change and evaluate the effectiveness of stylistic rewriting, thereby reducing harmful interactions in online environments.