I don’t want to watch much of the stuff the BBFC classifies, and nor, I suspect, do the people who work for the BBFC. Surely, I thought, we could get a machine to do this?
There won’t be much chance of getting a machine to look at the pictures and work out what’s going on for some time. But what if there were transcripts? Train up a classifier on previously-classified transcripts of films, run the new transcript through the classifier and James Ferman’s your uncle.
Except where do we get the transcripts from? We can’t necessarily rely on the filmmakers, though the scripts might be a good starting point. Having to watch the film and painstakingly note down everything that happens would negate the point of the whole exercise, so we’re left with either crowdsourcing or offshoring.
I don’t want to see eyewatering stills from a potentially R18 film as a CAPTCHA, so the only remaining option is to send the films overseas.
This isn’t going to work, is it?
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