Sony's new patent can automatically spot, censor, or even replace problematic content in real time, turning mature scenes into kid-friendly experience

After AI has 'fixed the problematic content' in Saving Private Ryan, Return of the King, Braveheart etc.

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And this will be the only version available to buy by the way.
 
Isn't that the whole point of this patent?

Oh, and I'll repeat once again...... Companies make patents all the time to protect ideas, it does not mean these ideas will ever get made. In fact, we've seen loads of FUD threads about Sony patents for years and very few ever come to fruition but people like to dump on Sony I guess.
Why does this need a patent at all? I don't want a console to interfere with what I am doing. The console just needs to play the fucking game and fuck off otherwise.
 
Why does this need a patent at all? I don't want a console to interfere with what I am doing. The console just needs to play the fucking game and fuck off otherwise.

Sony registers tons of patents every year for tons of different things and very few ever get applied to anything.
It's just a patent, and even if it is implemented it's only to chosen profiles, I don't understand why people are crying WAHHH CENSORSHIP over this.

Sony as a platform holder could make developers censor games in any way Sony wanted, there would be no need to patent this if their goal was just to censor games.
 
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Why does this need a patent at all? I don't want a console to interfere with what I am doing. The console just needs to play the fucking game and fuck off otherwise.
Because they could create single content for 18+ and then use AI to make that content suitable for younger ages. It would be your choice to turn that on or off or it would be based on your date of birth for the logged in account.

It needs a patent because the idea is a good one in theory so they want to protect that idea.
 
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What do you have in mind?

I'm hoping for a kind of semi crash which causes a hardware regression in some ways. This DDR situation will help to be honest but prices need to go back to being a low barrier to entry with lower specs imo forcing Devs to do a better job getting games to run well.

There would be a kind of crash but really developers that love games would find ways to deliver awesome games for budgets of like 5 to 10 million and then let them steadily increase again.(Expedition 33 style)

So Games only need a few million to be successful, we who love games get to play awesome games not ruined all the slop.

There's probably no chance and we will be all forced to stream games.......
 
Because they could create single content for 18+ and then use AI to make that content suitable for younger ages. It would be your choice to turn that on or off or it would be based on your date of birth for the logged in account.

It needs a patent because the idea is a good one in theory so they want to protect that idea.


From a conceptual point of view, the idea is very bad.

The line between mature and kids content is deeper than boobs and gore. The inventor of this believes that movies like Starship Troopers or games like TLOU would be suitable for kinds if they removed the explicit parts and that's wrong.

I don't want videogames or movies made by algorithms that try to "optimize their target audiences" by delivering slop that could be consumed equally censored/uncensored.
 
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Wake me up when even 10% of these patents we always rage about for over 2 decades on here, ever come to fruition.

Most patents are filed to prevent/block others from even doing certain things, and they tend to vault them forever in those endeavors.
 
As long as this is an optional feature, I am not against it.

It would even be darkly hilarious in a sense.
 
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Wake me up when even 10% of these patents we always rage about for over 2 decades on here, ever come to fruition.

Most patents are filed to prevent/block others from even doing certain things, and they tend to vault them forever in those endeavors.
Mostly this.
 
Wake me up when even 10% of these patents we always rage about for over 2 decades on here, ever come to fruition.

Most patents are filed to prevent/block others from even doing certain things, and they tend to vault them forever in those endeavors.

Wait you mean you don't have to stand up and yell McDonald's at the tv to get the boot up ad to go away when you try to launch a PS5 game?

AM I THE ONLY ONE?!
 
If it can automatically turn a not quite child friendly game safe then what's the problem?
It's not like it's meant to be used for adults.

The problem? The game already have age restriction, the console already have age restriction that you can configure on the fly.

All those things can be used anytime, never used for lazy one thats for sure.

If Sony want to help parents they should restrict credit card used from kids.
 
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