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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: 0s | source
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Springtime ◴[25 Aug 25 07:07 UTC] No.45011126[source]▶
Youtube 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 heavily.

Perhaps this was done to optimize video encoding, since the less noise/surface detail there is the easier it is to compress.

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alex1138 ◴[25 Aug 25 07:17 UTC] No.45011186[source]▶
Can I just start a petition to remove Shorts entirely?
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artninja1988 ◴[25 Aug 25 07:22 UTC] No.45011216[source]▶
Just don't watch them?
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moi2388 ◴[25 Aug 25 07:29 UTC] No.45011252[source]▶
How does that remove them?
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exe34 ◴[25 Aug 25 08:44 UTC] No.45011685[source]▶
do you feel a need to stop other people doing things you personally don't like?
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1. close04 ◴[25 Aug 25 09:24 UTC] No.45011917[source]▶
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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2. close04 ◴[25 Aug 25 11:52 UTC] No.45012852[source]▶
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.