The UK is using artificial intelligence to detect profanity, explicit scenes and violence in films

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) will turn to artificial intelligence to help assign age ratings to films.

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A new partnership with Amazon's cloud computing division aims to teach an artificial intelligence model to identify and flag "problematic content". This includes profanity, dangerous behaviour, sex and violence.

The BBFC hopes the technology will save time in classifying film or other video content. However, the AI will not replace professional staff but will complement them.

Some aspects of the classification system, such as profanity, are fairly easy to automate. Nudity recognition has also been made possible by advances in computer vision in recent years.

However, AI is still difficult to teach to pay attention to a number of categories, such as detecting dangerous behaviour or violence.

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In the future, the system plans to be taught to assign international age ratings. The idea is that streaming services will be able to get approval to broadcast for several territories at once. This would help speed up and make classification cheaper.

Source: The Guardian