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YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

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296 points jakub_g | 2 comments | 24 Aug 25 10:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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chinathrow ◴[25 Aug 25 08:17 UTC] No.45011515[source]▶
> YouTube did not respond to the BBC's questions about whether users will be given a choice about AI tweaking their videos.

Says everything. Hey PM at YouTube: How about you think stuff through before even starting to waste time on stuff like this?

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npteljes ◴[25 Aug 25 10:11 UTC] No.45012248[source]▶
>How about you think stuff through before even starting to waste time on stuff like this?

What makes you think they don't think it through? This effect is an experiment that they are running. It seems to be useless, unwanted from our perspective, but what if they find that it increases engagement?

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machomaster ◴[25 Aug 25 18:47 UTC] No.45017467[source]▶
> What makes you think they don't think it through?

Basing it on a lot of stupid decisions youtube has made over the years, the last being the horrendous autotranslation of titles/descriptions/audio that can't be turned off. Can only be explained by having morons making decisions, who can't imagine that anyone could speak more than one language.

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1. npteljes ◴[27 Aug 25 17:32 UTC] No.45042505[source]▶
I think those were thought through, even maybe the specific concerns that your bring up - and then a conscious decision was made to not give a fuck about those concerns.

I don't think it's stupidity, or shortsightedness, or ignorance, or anything like that. They just have different priorities. And they are not having enough negative feedback to reconsider these decisions.

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2. machomaster ◴[28 Aug 25 21:58 UTC] No.45057528[source]▶
If it quacks like a duck...

There is no practical difference between an idiot on the internet and a smart troll role-playing an idiot 100% of the time.

Since youtube has been making a lot of objectively stupid decisions, it does not matter if they are actually stupid or this is some kind of meta commentary on the power elites running their way and ordinary folks not able to do anything about it. It's all the same in practice.