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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 shadowgovt »

hliyan wrote: post #83

A chill ran down my spine as I imagined this being applied to the written word online: my articles being automatically "corrected" or "improved" the moment I hit publish, any book manuscripts being sent to editors being similarly "polished" to a point that we humans start to lose our unique tone and everything we read falls into that strange uncanny valley where everything reads ok, you can't quite put your finger on…

"Gee, sure would save editors a lot of time and effort if we just auto-spellchecked the manuscripts in the hopper, wouldn't it?"

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Post by aspenmayer »

npteljes wrote: post #68

Unfortunately the article doesn't have an example, or a comparison image. Other reports are similarly useless as well. The most that seemed to happen is that the wrinkles in someone's ear changed. In case anyone else wants to see it in action: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1lllnse/youtube_sh... I skimmed the videos as well, and there is much more talk about this thing, and barely any examples of it. As th…

YouTube Is Using AI to Alter Content (and not telling us) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44912648 9 days ago (6 points, 0 comments)

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Post by dahart »

aspenmayer wrote: post #146
ta8645 wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My guess is that guys being replaced by the steam shovel said the same thing about the quality of holes being dug into the ground. "No machine is ever going to be able to dig a hole as lovingly or as accurately as a man with a shovel". "The digging machines consume way too much energy" etc. I'm pretty sure all the hand wringing about A.I. is going to fade into the past in the same way as every other strand of technop…

No one ever wrote a song or erected a statue for a steam shovel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)

There’s a song about Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, and there’s a monument to the Marion Steam Shovel in Le Roy, New York…

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

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Post by count »

wolrah wrote: post #96
makeitdouble wrote: post #71

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At this point, the stuff I'd want to remove: - auto-dubbing - auto-translation - shorts (they're fine in a separate space, just not in the timeline) - member only streams (if I'm not a member, which is 100% of them) The only viable interface for that is the web and plenty of browser extensions.

> - shorts (they're fine in a separate space, just not in the timeline) No they're not. Nothing that mandates vertical video has ever been fine nor ever will be. Tiktok, Reels, Shorts, all bad and should be destroyed. Unless the action is primarily vertical, which is rarely ever the case, it's always been and always will be wrong. Yes I will die on this hill. Videos that are worse to watch on everything but a phone a…

“Everything but a phone” is a tiny tiny percentage of the devices used to consume content on YouTube. It’s not just mobile first, it’s basically only mobile…

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Post by croes »

hliyan wrote: post #83

A chill ran down my spine as I imagined this being applied to the written word online: my articles being automatically "corrected" or "improved" the moment I hit publish, any book manuscripts being sent to editors being similarly "polished" to a point that we humans start to lose our unique tone and everything we read falls into that strange uncanny valley where everything reads ok, you can't quite put your finger on…

"A spark of excitement ran through me imagining this applied to writing online: my articles receiving instant, supportive refinements the moment I hit publish, and manuscripts arriving to editors already thoughtfully polished—elevating clarity while letting our distinctive voices shine even brighter. The result is a consistently smooth, natural reading experience that feels confidently authentic, faithfully reflecting what I wrote while enhancing it with care."

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Post by qwertox »

crazygringo wrote: post #142

From the linked tweet from YouTube's head of editorial: "No GenAI, no upscaling. We're running an experiment on select YouTube Shorts that uses traditional machine learning technology to unblur, denoise, and improve clarity in videos during processing (similar to what a modern smartphone does when you record a video)" https://x.com/youtubeinsider/status/1958199532363317467?s=46 Considering how aggressive YouTube is w…

This is similar to how AI enhanced photos are a non-issue. If one zooms into a photo taken by a Google Pixel device, you clearly see that these are no longer normal JPEG artifacts. Everything has so odd swirls in it down to the smallest block.

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

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Post by rollcat »

bobsmooth wrote: post #149
rollcat wrote: post #147

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I don't mind the ads as much as all the mandatory meta-baiting. Not the MB itself, but the mechanisms behind it. Even if you produce interesting videos, you still must MB to get the likes, to stay relevant to the algorithm, to capture a bigger share of the limited resource that is human attention. The creators are fighting each other for land, our eyeballs are the crops, meanwhile the landlord takes most of the profi…

There is much data to support that asking for likes and subs actually increases likes and subs.

That is my entire point. The creators fight each other in a pit, for the Emperor's amusement.

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Post by Mistletoe »

hliyan wrote: post #83

A chill ran down my spine as I imagined this being applied to the written word online: my articles being automatically "corrected" or "improved" the moment I hit publish, any book manuscripts being sent to editors being similarly "polished" to a point that we humans start to lose our unique tone and everything we read falls into that strange uncanny valley where everything reads ok, you can't quite put your finger on…

You've basically just described the last few years of journalism. We are lucky if a human even wrote the seed story for it.

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Post by aspenmayer »

dahart wrote: post #163
aspenmayer wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No one ever wrote a song or erected a statue for a steam shovel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)

There’s a song about Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, and there’s a monument to the Marion Steam Shovel in Le Roy, New York…

I don't think parking an old steam shovel is much of a monument, but I'll give that one to you. No one built it for display, but they did put one there for that purpose, so I'll meet you halfway. I was wrong to suggest no one would do so, and there is clearly interest in such a thing, but I can't say that I agree that a statue exists. The song exists, the steam shovel monument exists. Appreciate the correction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Steam_Shovel_(Le_Roy,_N...

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Post by smitelli »

dingaling wrote: post #107
wolrah wrote: post #96

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> - shorts (they're fine in a separate space, just not in the timeline) No they're not. Nothing that mandates vertical video has ever been fine nor ever will be. Tiktok, Reels, Shorts, all bad and should be destroyed. Unless the action is primarily vertical, which is rarely ever the case, it's always been and always will be wrong. Yes I will die on this hill. Videos that are worse to watch on everything but a phone a…

Have you ever encountered portrait photos? They're orientated vertically because the human form, either head, bust or full body, fits better and excludes distractions. Vertical videos, if they're focused on a human, work fine for the same reason.

I'd be interested in seeing an example of a well-composed 9:16 portrait photo. All the ones I have found look awkward.
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