Friday, 10 December 2021 17:12

PlayStation Patents Automated System to Detect Trolls and Disruptive Players in Multiplayer Games

Written by Rory Young
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Sony files a patent that could transform how PlayStation games track 'disruptive behavior' with a proactive automated system.

As anyone who frequently plays multiplayer games can attest, trolls and disruptive players are ubiquitous. Moderation efforts are failing across the medium. That's something acknowledged by Sony in a recently published patent, which describes how the "management of disruptive players in video games is not currently done as well as possible." The patent goes on to describe a system to more aggressively recognize, process, and track "disruptive behavior" in multiplayer games. It's potentially a system that could be built into PlayStation games in the future.

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