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.

> - shorts (they're fine in a separate space, just not in the timeline)

No they're not. Nothing that mandates vertical video has ever been fine nor ever will be. Tiktok, Reels, Shorts, all bad and should be destroyed.

Unless the action is primarily vertical, which is rarely ever the case, it's always been and always will be wrong.

Yes I will die on this hill. Videos that are worse to watch on everything but a phone and have bad framing for most content are objectively bad.

There is nothing wrong with the concept of short videos of course, but this "built for phones, sucks for everything else" trash needs to go away.

Have you ever encountered portrait photos? They're orientated vertically because the human form, either head, bust or full body, fits better and excludes distractions.

Vertical videos, if they're focused on a human, work fine for the same reason.

I'd be interested in seeing an example of a well-composed 9:16 portrait photo. All the ones I have found look awkward.