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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: 0.543s | source
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watwut ◴[25 Aug 25 07:57 UTC] No.45011400[source]▶
Now to that stupid robot auto translation on non-english videos I never asked for and can not turn off.
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1. rckt ◴[25 Aug 25 09:22 UTC] No.45011904[source]▶
This one is the worst. I can't imagine the thought process behind it. How on earth it was seen as a wanted feature, and especially without a simple way to disable it? This feels like they used AI to code this AI thing in.
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2. hulitu ◴[25 Aug 25 10:28 UTC] No.45012336[source]▶
> How on earth it was seen as a wanted feature, and especially without a simple way to disable it?

Were you asleep in the last 10 years ? /s They have names for it: accessibily, User eXperience. Or as some other people put it: enshitification.