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YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

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296 points jakub_g | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 10:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source
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kace91 ◴[25 Aug 25 09:15 UTC] No.45011869[source]▶
The recent sinking in quality of youtube as a platform has been awful to watch.

Just a couple days ago I got an ad with a Ned Flanders singing about the causes of erectyle dysfunction (!), a huge cocktail of copyright infringement, dangerous medical advice and AI generated slop. Youtube answered the report telling me they've reviewed and found nothing wrong.

The constant low quality, extremely intertwined ads start to remind me of those of shady forums and porn pages of the nineties. I'm expecting them to start advertising heroine now they've decided short term profits trump everything else.

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1. uz3snolc3t6fnrq ◴[25 Aug 25 16:53 UTC] No.45015911[source]▶
you'd think that by a certain point youtube ads would've been regulated/managed just like ads on tv channels.. it made sense not do to it that way when the platform was in its infancy, but nowadays almost every news channel is on youtube and the platform has the kind of money to manage ad spaces the same way or similar to the way television used to. whether that's the right method of doing it.. there'll probably be some objections to going back to that way of dealing with ads but a new system is needed because allowing instant adsense deployment to the entirety of youtube without any checks to make sure there's no inappropriate material, copyright infringement or scams isn't working out that well