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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: 0s | source
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npteljes ◴[25 Aug 25 10:07 UTC] No.45012214[source]▶
Unfortunately the article doesn't have an example, or a comparison image. Other reports are similarly useless as well. The most that seemed to happen is that the wrinkles in someone's ear changed. In case anyone else wants to see it in action:

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1lllnse/youtube_sh...

I skimmed the videos as well, and there is much more talk about this thing, and barely any examples of it. As this is an experiment, I guess that all this noise serves as a feedback to YouTube.

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nmeofthestate ◴[25 Aug 25 13:33 UTC] No.45013680[source]▶
If you click through to Rhett Schul's (sp?) video you can see examples comparing the original video (from non-Shorts videos) with the sharpened video (from Shorts).

Basically YouTube is applying a sharpening filter to "Shorts" videos.

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1. npteljes ◴[25 Aug 25 18:45 UTC] No.45017429[source]▶
I saw the sharpening, and listened to the claims of shirt wrinkles being weird and so on, but I didn't deem these to be on the level of the original claim, which is that "AI enhancements" are made to the video, as in, new details and features are invented on the video. In the ear example, the shape of the ear changed, which is significant because I'd never want that in any of my photos or videos. The rest of the effects were more "overdone" than "inventive".

Although, I probably wouldn't want any automatic filtering applied to my video either, AI modifications or not.