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.

If we take them at their word then it's just an extension of technology to optimize video... and it's called AI because buzzwords and hence controversy.

> it's just an extension of technology to optimize video... and it's called AI because buzzwords and hence controversy.

The controversy is that YouTube is making strange changes to the videos of users, that make the videos look fake.

YouTube creators put hours upon hours on writing, shooting and editing their videos. And those that do it full time often depend on YouTube and their audience for income.

If YouTube messes up the videos of creators and makes the videos look like they are fake, of course the creators are gonna be upset!