Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality

zeropointone@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  there might be a few youtubers or purists who would pay to opt out of something like that, but the average uploader isn't gonna give two shits about enhancements youtube makes. especially when it took this long for a few people to even notice.

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  • zeropointone@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I wouldn't say people are incapable of noticing the difference. most people just don't care as much as a very vocal minority of the population seems to. especially people watching shorts. nobody watching shorts is looking for quality, they're looking for short videos that don't outlast their attention span. it doesn't matter whether or not something is AI, all that matters is it engages them for ten seconds or so till they scroll to the next short, and keeps the dopamine flowing.

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      • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Tbh, I kind of just thought people were uploading worse quality videos to Shorts, or people’s phones were doing some bullshit smoothing filter. I didn’t realize it until I watched a creator I know who wouldn’t upload such an uncanny video filter.

        YouTube doing this without telling anyone is kinda crazy. There’s a few people who’ve been complaining their own shorts don’t even look like them

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