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Not exactly what you asked for but VidAngel is amazing for that on streaming.

You get as broad or granular set of filters you want. From nothing blocked, to individual instances of swear words or suggestiveness->nudity are all there. Or even things like crudeness, smoking. Etc. Incredible detailed control if yoy want it.

With easy toggles for the main categories.

And you can see the instances of each of those on each episode based on what you have. It's listed out before you hit play.

I have no affiliation, just thought it was cool for if I had kids.

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I use this and it’s better than nothing. I’m hoping for a day when AI is powerful enough to filter these out not by skipping them but by altering them. Subbing in family-friendly alternatives for curse words and maybe blurring or clothing the nudity. Obviously some scene will still need to be skipped entirely.

I have absolutely no confidence in this. "family-friendly" is extremely context and culture specific. You'll get lots of people actively trying to push the boundary for fun.

On the weird extreme of that are the Spiderman/Elsa videos.

On the cultural extreme is Mr Rogers washing feet together with a black friend.

Are we going to update the filters with time as well? Or would we get stuck with no toilets or flushing forever?

There's a lot of old movies in my country where the nudity happened and it was extremely matter-of-fact - for example people go for a swim in the ocean so they're naked while they change. Those movies are way more family-friendly than what this filter would accept.

> Mr Rogers washing feet together with a black friend.

A Black, gay police officer, at that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Clemmons

Yeah I agree with the part of making it easier to do some of this stuff, heavily machine-assisted, even generative like you said, but will need a human at the end I think, to guide/audit and give stamp of approval. Flavors guided by culture like viraptor said.

It's one of those "I know it when I see it" things. To make sure nothing glitches, is weird, or the sum of parts not "off" somehow.

(Trying to synthesize both ideas)

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