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do you feel a need to stop other people doing things you personally don't like?
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are they making you go on YouTube?
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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Can I just start a petition to remove Shorts entirely?
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.
> The only viable interface for that is the web and plenty of browser extensions.
there are ways to get this same experience with android. Use https://github.com/ReVanced/ and make your phone work for you instead of working for someone else.
Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission
#83A 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 it, but it feels like something is wearing the skin of what you wrote as a face.
Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission
#84> 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?
PM to everyone else: what are you going to do, publish on Odysee?
As long as YouTube continues to be the Jupiter sized gorilla in the room, they're not going to care very much about what the plebes think.
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I want to remove them from my own feed. I want the button that says "hide" or "show fewer shorts" to actually work and ideally hide them forever. I have to play whack-a-mole on the different devices and browsers to try to hide shorts.
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Well you aren’t wrong but the attitude isn’t helping.
It is my feed as far as it explains to you that it’s not about disabling something for others. It isn’t my feed as far as who actually controls it is concerned.
Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission
#86> 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?
>How about you think stuff through before even starting to waste time on stuff like this? What makes you think they don't think it through? This effect is an experiment that they are running. It seems to be useless, unwanted from our perspective, but what if they find that it increases engagement?
Someone at google needs this promotion to feel like a real man
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xkcd 2015 closer than you think due to the magical technology of money https://xkcd.com/2015/
Wow, that xkcd really scares me. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. It's definitely something that could realistically happen in the near future, maybe even mandated by the EU
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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 response to junk food and cigarettes and drugs is to avoid them, not make them illegal.
Re: YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission
#89A 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…
Maybe it's time for people to realize that you create product inside a product. Those T&S didnt write themselves. Not defending them.
This is what tech bros in SV built and they all love it.
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#90Now to that stupid robot auto translation on non-english videos I never asked for and can not turn off.
The "can not turn off" part is the most jarring. Seriously, did none of Californian PMs hear about the concept of "being multilingual" and not needing to translate non-English content? --- By the way, this reminds me also of another stupid Google thing related to languages: Say your Chrome is set to English. When encountering another language page, Chrome will (since a decade ago or so) helpfully ask you to auto-tran…
> Seriously, did none of Californian PMs hear about the concept of "being multilingual" and not needing to translate non-English content?
Sometimes it feels like Google keeps anyone with any kind of executive power hermetically sealed a some house borrowed from a reality TV show where they're not allowed any contact with the outside world.