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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: 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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moi2388 ◴[25 Aug 25 15:50 UTC] No.45015171[source]▶
Yes. That’s the basis of literally every law and regulation known to man.
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exe34 ◴[25 Aug 25 16:02 UTC] No.45015301[source]▶
thank goodness that in some countries we have the concept of a private life, where you don't have to like what we do and you can't stop it.
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1. moi2388 ◴[28 Aug 25 12:49 UTC] No.45051554{3}[source]▶
I can’t reply to your other comment so I’ll do it here.

Article 8 can be revoked for public safety, prevention of disorder or crime, protection of the rights of other people, but also for the protection of health and morals.

Given the problems with attention spans in systems like TikTok and shorts, they definitely could ban it even given article 8.

Sorry to burst your bubble.

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2. exe34 ◴[28 Aug 25 16:30 UTC] No.45054125[source]▶
I was explaining the idea of a private life, sorry it went over your head.