{"id":205883,"date":"2025-02-08T03:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T09:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/ai-driven-dialogue-analysis-confirms-popular-movies-have-grown-more-violent-over-the-past-70-years"},"modified":"2025-02-08T03:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T09:16:07","slug":"ai-driven-dialogue-analysis-confirms-popular-movies-have-grown-more-violent-over-the-past-70-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/ai-driven-dialogue-analysis-confirms-popular-movies-have-grown-more-violent-over-the-past-70-years","title":{"rendered":"AI-driven dialogue analysis confirms popular movies have grown more violent over the past 70 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-driven-dialogue-analysis-confirms-popular-movies-have-grown-more-violent-over-the-past-70-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Movies often reflect the predominant societal and cultural values at the time they were shot. These values can be expressed in various elements of a film, including the interactions between characters, their communication styles and their characterizing traits.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few decades, some parents and scholars have expressed their concerns about the recent evolution of Hollywood Oscar-nominated and blockbuster movies, suggesting that they contain significantly more abusive and violent content than movies released during earlier historical periods. Yet, these debates are often grounded on a general perception of films as opposed to detailed analyses of films.<\/p>\n<p>Two researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia recently carried out a study aimed at better understanding the differences between the content and dialogues of movies released over the past 70 years, using a class of well-known computational models known as large language models (LLMs). Their <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2501.13948\" target=\"_blank\">findings<\/a>, on the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server, confirm the hypothesis that movies have become more violent over time while also highlighting movie genres that appear to feature the most abusive and violent content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movies often reflect the predominant societal and cultural values at the time they were shot. These values can be expressed in various elements of a film, including the interactions between characters, their communication styles and their characterizing traits. Over the past few decades, some parents and scholars have expressed their concerns about the recent evolution [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}