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YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

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296 points jakub_g | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 10:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jszymborski ◴[24 Aug 25 12:39 UTC] No.45003810[source]▶
So I feel like article doesn't address the "why" of it all. Why auto AI upscale?
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1. hleszek ◴[25 Aug 25 07:35 UTC] No.45011286[source]▶
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.