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YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

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296 points jakub_g | 2 comments | 24 Aug 25 10:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.412s | 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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therein ◴[25 Aug 25 07:20 UTC] No.45011207[source]▶
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.
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1. antiloper ◴[25 Aug 25 08:35 UTC] No.45011621[source]▶
There's also the on-by default, can't be disabled, auto-dubbing YouTube performs on every video that's not in the single browser's language. The dubbing quality is poor for the same reason, to intentionally expose viewers to AI content.

It's 100% a push to remove human creators from the equation entirely.

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2. anal_reactor ◴[25 Aug 25 09:29 UTC] No.45011942[source]▶
That's exactly it. All social media platforms are experimenting with replacing humans with AI.