YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

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.

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.