Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

Post by trimethylpurine » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 5:34 PM UTC

Tiberium wrote: post #14

b-kf wrote: post #9

bit meta but can I just applaud the article? Descriptive title, immediately comes to the point, no elaborate fluff, factual... what a nice change of pace. 95% of other users finding this would have done much worse. This is not clickbait, not calling for a social media campaign, has no embedded tweets of interaction with Google engineers trying to shame them, no singling out of individuals, ... Not sure if a user post…

You're in for a surprise then, because this article is clearly in an LLM style. That doesn't mean it's hallucinated, no, there is a real human behind, but the actual content that you enjoyed is LLM-written.

Post by yorwba » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 5:37 PM UTC

javxfps wrote: post #18

b-kf wrote: post #9

bit meta but can I just applaud the article? Descriptive title, immediately comes to the point, no elaborate fluff, factual... what a nice change of pace. 95% of other users finding this would have done much worse. This is not clickbait, not calling for a social media campaign, has no embedded tweets of interaction with Google engineers trying to shame them, no singling out of individuals, ... Not sure if a user post…

Thank you for the feedback! It's my first time posting here, so I didn't really know I should do that. I'll do that now.

Post by opem » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 5:37 PM UTC

Post by Starlevel004 » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 5:38 PM UTC

knollimar wrote: post #16

Tiberium wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're in for a surprise then, because this article is clearly in an LLM style. That doesn't mean it's hallucinated, no, there is a real human behind, but the actual content that you enjoyed is LLM-written.

Give me that style guide and spread it around then!

Post by citizenpaul » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 5:40 PM UTC

ronbenton wrote: post #22

Mg6yDfjp5U wrote: post #10

I recently left Google having worked on a number of projects with various YouTube teams. I think I can explain why it's being handled this way by YouTube. This is a fairly nuanced/involved issue, so the task of classifying the bug likely made it's way to one of the engineers responsible for the implementation of this feature. That engineer has already launched this project, and filed it away under their GRAD (perform…

Glad to hear this is a universal big tech experience. The promo process is entirely antithetical to shipping good products