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YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

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Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

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Post by Springtime »

Youtube says this was done for select Youtube Shorts as a denoising process. However most popular channels on Youtube, which seem to be the pool selected for this experiment, typically already have well lit and graded videos shouldn't benefit much from extra denoising from a visual point of view.

It's true though that aggressive denoising gives things an artificially generated look since both processes use denoising heavily.

Perhaps this was done to optimize video encoding, since the less noise/surface detail there is the easier it is to compress.

Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

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Post by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF »

lolc wrote: post #8

> "You know, YouTube is constantly working on new tools and experimenting with stuff," Beato says. "They're a best-in-class company, I've got nothing but good things to say. YouTube changed my life." My despondent brain auto-translated that to: "My livelihood depends on Youtube"

xkcd 2015 closer than you think due to the magical technology of money https://xkcd.com/2015/

Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

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Post by tovej »

fcpguru wrote: post #3
jszymborski wrote: post #2

So I feel like article doesn't address the "why" of it all. Why auto AI upscale?

Boost visual quality, which improve viewer retention. So, money. I've tried many times to get a short with retention > 90% that is, 90% of viewers watch all the way to end. That's the key to going super viral. Very hard to do. I've had many shorts get around 75% and about 1k views but then die. Maybe I need some AI!

AI upscale does not improve quality imo, I'd much prefer to watch grainy vhs originals to AI upscaled ones that insert weird shapes in the image.

This is especially bad in animation, where the art gets visibly distorted.

Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

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Post by djmips »

Springtime wrote: post #11

Youtube says this was done for select Youtube Shorts as a denoising process. However most popular channels on Youtube, which seem to be the pool selected for this experiment, typically already have well lit and graded videos shouldn't benefit much from extra denoising from a visual point of view. It's true though that aggressive denoising gives things an artificially generated look since both processes use denoising…

If we take them at their word then it's just an extension of technology to optimize video... and it's called AI because buzzwords and hence controversy.

Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

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Post by alex1138 »

Springtime wrote: post #11

Youtube says this was done for select Youtube Shorts as a denoising process. However most popular channels on Youtube, which seem to be the pool selected for this experiment, typically already have well lit and graded videos shouldn't benefit much from extra denoising from a visual point of view. It's true though that aggressive denoising gives things an artificially generated look since both processes use denoising…

Can I just start a petition to remove Shorts entirely?

Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

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Post by therein »

jszymborski wrote: post #2

So I feel like article doesn't address the "why" of it all. Why auto AI upscale?

To make people more accustomed to the AI generated look so that when they release their next Veo integration to YouTube content creator tools, these videos will stand out less as unnatural.

Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

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Post by artninja1988 »

alex1138 wrote: post #16
Springtime wrote: post #11

Youtube says this was done for select Youtube Shorts as a denoising process. However most popular channels on Youtube, which seem to be the pool selected for this experiment, typically already have well lit and graded videos shouldn't benefit much from extra denoising from a visual point of view. It's true though that aggressive denoising gives things an artificially generated look since both processes use denoising…

Can I just start a petition to remove Shorts entirely?

Just don't watch them?

Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

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Post by justsomehnguy »

tovej wrote: post #14
fcpguru wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Boost visual quality, which improve viewer retention. So, money. I've tried many times to get a short with retention > 90% that is, 90% of viewers watch all the way to end. That's the key to going super viral. Very hard to do. I've had many shorts get around 75% and about 1k views but then die. Maybe I need some AI!

AI upscale does not improve quality imo, I'd much prefer to watch grainy vhs originals to AI upscaled ones that insert weird shapes in the image. This is especially bad in animation, where the art gets visibly distorted.

There are people out there who can vote and can (sometimes) buy and drink alcohol and who never used VHS in any capacity.

And a new generation what is trained on a constantly enabled face filters and 'AI'-upscaled slop is already here.

Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

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Post by ollysb »

I've seem some game of thrones clips recently in youtube shorts which looked like they'd been generated by ai. I couldn't understand why anyone would have done that to the original good looking material. The only thing I could think was that it was some kind of copyright evasion.
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