Azure AI Content Safety
Microsoft's API for detecting harmful content, prompt attacks and ungrounded output in AI apps.
What it is
Azure AI Content Safety, now presented as Content Safety in Microsoft Foundry, detects hate, sexual, violence and self-harm content in text and images with adjustable severity thresholds. It adds Prompt Shields against direct and indirect prompt attacks, groundedness detection, protected material detection for text and code, and custom categories. A free tier covers 5,000 text records and 5,000 images a month.
MCP server
We have not checked yet whether Azure AI Content Safety offers an MCP server for AI agents.
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