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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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I want an AI TV that blocks all forms of advertising. (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We mostly watch news and sports in my house. So unfortunately, live TV. Occasionally we watch other things. I mute the commercials and browse my phone when they're on.

But I would love a TV that is smart enough to auto hide & mute every kind of ad. Even little logos on the athletes' uniforms. Hide the ads on the pitcher's mound. Hide the billboards and signs in the stadium. Show some cool little generic animation, music video, or slide show during commercial breaks. Hide the damned popup window ads and scrolling ads that some channels do. Remove product placements from movies and shows. Basically make all ads completely vanish.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I cannot think of any other methods

Exactly. What you're describing isn't "AI." It's "magic." And "AI" can't do what OP wants either.

No "AI" solution we have any reason to expect we'll be able to create in anything approaching the foreseeable future is going to be able to do anything remotely like this without ridiculous amounts of false positives and/or false negatives.

By false positives in this case, I mean things like not coming back from the cool little slideshows until a minute past the end of the commercial break or obscuring important details of the show having falsely "concluded" that it's a logo or some such.

And I would have assumed "without a lot of false positives" would have gone without saying. If OP is comfortable with lots of non-ad content blocked/obscured along with the ads, then I've got a 100% guaranteed zero-false-negatives solution that'll fit OP's requirements without involving a speck of "AI" anywhere that OP can implement right now: turn the TV off.