Sony Patents To Prevent You From In-Game Harassment By Reading Your Emotions

A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.

[Profchaos]

I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.

I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons

I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.

[exputers]

Agreed. Blizzard recently banned a college Overwatch 2 player who's dependent for saying "shit." Pretty harsh.

[Profchaos]

How rediculas really. You can't say a word that's allowed in most PG films and prime time TV but the game is based around killing the enemy team using guns, explosives etc.

It's just backwards.

[just_looken]

What your talking about is called block list

In 2006 a spaceship dropped of the playstation 3/xbox 360 i say that that generation was the last great gen with game functions/tech that has yet to comeback

Anyhow the playstation 3 if you block listed a id they could not talk to you in chatroom with either text or voice. But that was pre mind fucked 2018 when people were more human than sheep.

But hey gta 6 is coming out billion dollar budget without a single player custom character creator and without singeplayer coop off/online something saints row 1-3 had on the xbox 360.

[z2g]

Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.

[phoenixwing]

Cmon where's the pictures of your children. Don't hold out on them.

[H9]

At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath

[jambola]

I genuinely get a bit worried sometimes when a friend says something that could be offensive In a party
Because I have no trouble believing some bans would happen when in a private party for saying something wrong

[SegaSaturn669]

I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.

[Popsicle]

Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.

[romulus23]

Can't you just report it if you're being "harassed"? Doubt this will ever become a thing.

[Inverno]

That's why you put in a report system that actually works, and then have rules that don't ban you for talking smack or dropping an f bomb here and there. But yeah let's have intrusive AI reading our emotions so that i can get ban when the poor snowflake loses her mind over a kitchen joke.

[stloony]

Be careful that you don't laugh too hard with your fiends that you cry, or your pals might get banned.

[VincentVanBro]

What an incredibly dumb idea with seemingly good intentions