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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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Springtime ◴[25 Aug 25 07:07 UTC] No.45011126[source]▶
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.

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alex1138 ◴[25 Aug 25 07:17 UTC] No.45011186[source]▶
Can I just start a petition to remove Shorts entirely?
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artninja1988 ◴[25 Aug 25 07:22 UTC] No.45011216[source]▶
Just don't watch them?
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moi2388 ◴[25 Aug 25 07:29 UTC] No.45011252[source]▶
How does that remove them?
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exe34 ◴[25 Aug 25 08:44 UTC] No.45011685[source]▶
do you feel a need to stop other people doing things you personally don't like?
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animuchan[dead post] ◴[25 Aug 25 09:36 UTC] No.45012004[source]▶
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exe34 ◴[25 Aug 25 11:09 UTC] No.45012566[source]▶
are they making you go on YouTube?
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1. animuchan ◴[26 Aug 25 10:00 UTC] No.45024447{3}[source]▶
There are barely any alternatives, so yes, when I'm going to Google's or Meta's properties that's largely against my will. They literally make me, where "they" is a large and diverse group of entities.

To boycott Google I'd be forced to quit my job for example, as it literally forces me into Google's services.

Specifically YouTube has very little in the way of alternatives, but I get what you're saying — I just respectfully disagree with the coping method. Which is to say, on the gradient between "we should suck it up" and "we should Luigi Mangione the person responsible" I fall somewhere in the middle.