Upgrading the Moderation API with OpenAI's new multimodal moderation model
OpenAI released omni-moderation-latest on September 26, 2024, a GPT-4o-based Moderation API model for text and image inputs that is free for all developers. It adds illicit and illicit/violent text categories, supports image moderation in 6 subcategories, and improves 42% on an internal 40-language eval, with gains in 98% of languages tested.
Why it matters: Extends free moderation to images and broadens what text categories get flagged.