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Can I just start a petition to remove Shorts entirely?
Just don't watch them?
How does that remove them?
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
#22I've noticed this for a while, when I accidentally click on YouTube Shorts. (I want to avoid it, because it's brain rot, but YouTube keeps enabling it and pushes it hard in notifications). It's most glaringly obvious in TV shows. Scenes from The Big Bang Theory look like someone clumsily tries to paint over the scenes with oil paint. It's as if the actors are wearing an inch thick layer of poorly applied makeup. It's…
There are shorts blocker addons available.
Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission
#23So I feel like article doesn't address the "why" of it all. Why auto AI upscale?
Maybe it's to make it more difficult to train AI video models from YouTube.
Think about it, they have the raw footage so could use it if they want, but competitors using scrapers will have slightly distorted video sources.
Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission
#24Youtube 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?
Use the Unhook extension
Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission
#25Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission
#26Now to that stupid robot auto translation on non-english videos I never asked for and can not turn off.
Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission
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Just don't watch them?
Just don't smoke/eat junk/do drugs etc. They put addictive shit in your face and force you to use their bloated interface to access the service.
The worst thing for me is they don't show the channel names. So much of the channels pushing Star Wars shorts are quite obvious bot names, and it's hard to filter these from legitimate SW content creators who are, on top of that, all using the same damn AI voice.
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Can I just start a petition to remove Shorts entirely?
Just don't watch them?
Easy on the website. Very click and swipe intensive on the phone in my opinion. Shorts are front and centre of the app and the search screens. I don't see any feed of suggested videos anymore.
Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission
#29Now to that stupid robot auto translation on non-english videos I never asked for and can not turn off.
Those translations are not only unwanted but also ridiculously bad (which is part of the reason why they're unwanted, I guess). I have to translate back to the original English, as far as that's even possible, to get an idea of what the video might be about.
Who in his right mind thought this was a good idea??
I have a Firefox extension which tries to suppress the translations, but it only works for the main view, not for videos in the sidebar. It's better than nothing.
Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission
#30> YouTube did not respond to the BBC's questions about whether users will be given a choice about AI tweaking their videos.
Says everything. Hey PM at YouTube: How about you think stuff through before even starting to waste time on stuff like this?