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YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
- randycupertino 11mo agoA makeup influencer I follow noticed youtube and instagram are automatically adding filters to his face without permission to his videos. If his content was about lip makeup they make his lips enormous and if it was about eye makeup the filters make his eyes gigantic. They're having AI detecting the type of content and automatically applying filters. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO9MwTHCoR_/?igsh=MTZybml2NDBwbmhxMw%3D%3D https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO9MwTHCoR_/?igsh=MTZybml2NDB... The screenshots/videos of them doing it are pretty wild, and insane they are editing creators' uploads without consent!
- adzm 11mo agoThis is ridiculous
- reactordev 11mo agoI can hear the ballpoint pens now… This is going to be a huge legal fight as the terms of service you agree to on their platform is “they get to do whatever they want” (IANAL). Watch them try to spin this as “user preference” that just opted everyone into.
- api 11mo agoThat’s the rude awakening creators get on these platforms. If you’re a writer or an artist or a musician, you own your work by default. But if you upload it to these platforms, they own it more or less. It’s there in the terms of service.
- sodapopcan 11mo agoWhat if someone else uploads your work?
- benoau 11mo agoSection 230 immunity for doing whatever they want, as long as they remove it if you complain.
- mitthrowaway2 11mo agoDo they also remove it from the AI model weights they trained on it while it was uploaded?
- api 11mo agoNo.
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- gessha 11mo agoWhat are they going to do though, go to one of the ten competing video hosting platforms?
- mhdhn 11mo agononexistent
- Bombthecat 11mo agoYeah, we decided there is only YouTube and only YouTube. Also, no one else can bear the shear amount of traffic and cost
- echelon 11mo ago[flagged]
- jazzyjackson 11mo agoTotally. Unfortunately it's not lossless and instead of just getting pixelated it's changing the size of body parts lol
- plorg 11mo agoIf any engineers think that's what they're doing they should be fired. More likely it's product managers who barely know what's going on in their departments except that there's a word "AI" pinging around that's good for their KPIs and keeps them from getting fired.
- echelon 11mo ago[flagged]
- asveikau 11mo agoVideos are expensive to store, but generative AI is expensive to run. That will cost them more than storage allegedly saved. To solve this problem of adding compute heavy processing to serving videos, they will need to cache the output of the AI, which uses up the storage you say they are saving.
- echelon 11mo agohttps://c3-neural-compression.github.io/ https://c3-neural-compression.github.io/ Google has already matched H.266. And this was over a year ago. They've probably developed some really good models for this and are silently testing how people perceive them.
- hatmanstack 11mo agoIf you want insight into why they haven't deleted "old garbage" you might try, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Zuboff. Pretty enlightening.
- Aurornis 11mo agoThe video shown as evidence is full of compression artifacts. The influencer is non-technical and assumes it's an AI filter, but the output is obviously not good quality anywhere. To me, this clearly looks like a case of a very high compression ratio with the motion blocks swimming around on screen. They might have some detail enhancement in the loop to try to overcome the blockiness which, in this case, results in the swimming effect. It's strange to see these claims being taken at face value on a technical forum. It should be a dead giveaway that this is a compression issue because the entire video is obviously highly compressed and lacking detail.
- maxbond 11mo agoThis is an unfair analysis. They discuss compression artifacts. They highlight things like their eyes getting bigger which are not what you usually expect from a compression artifact. If your compression pipeline gives people anime eyes because it's doing "detail enhancement", your compression pipeline is also a filter. If you apply some transformation to a creator's content, and then their viewers perceive that as them disingenuously using a filter, and your response to their complaints is to "well actually" them about whether it is a filter or a compression artifact, you've lost the plot. To be honest, calling someone "non-technical" and then "well actually"ing them about hair splitting details when the outcome is the same is patronizing, and I really wish we wouldn't treat "normies" that way. Regardless of whether they are technical, they are living in a world increasingly intermediated by technology, and we should be listening to their feedback on it. They have to live with the consequences of our design decisions. If we believe them to be non-technical, we should extend a lot of generosity to them in their use of terminology, and address what they mean instead of nitpicking.
- methuselah_in 11mo agoThere is no option to turn that off? Or they even don't publish those things anywhere??
- weird-eye-issue 11mo agoOne of the comments on IG explains this perfectly: "Meta has been doing this; when they auto-translate the audio of a video they are also adding an Al filter to make the mouth of who is speaking match the audio more closely. But doing this can also add a weird filter over all the face." I don't know why you have to get into conspiracy theories about them applying different filters based on the video content, that would be such a weird micro optimization why would they bother with that
- eloisius 11mo agoI doubt that’s what’s happening too but it’s not beyond the pale. They could be feeding both the input video and audio/transcript into their transformer and it has learned “when the audio is talking about lips the person is usually puckering their lips for the camera” so it regurgitates that.
- Irishsteve 11mo agoSome random team or engineer does it to get a promo.
- machomaster 11mo agoGoogle has done so many incredibly stupid things, like autotranslating titles/information/audio from a language I already know into English, with no way to turn this off. Assuming that they did something technically impressive, but stupid again is not a conspiracy, but a reasonable assumption based on previous behavior.
- Bombthecat 11mo agoThat's actually hilarious
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- ThePowerOfFuet 11mo agoHere's that link without the tracking linking you to everyone who clicks on it: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO9MwTHCoR_ https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO9MwTHCoR_
- data-ottawa 11mo agoAre these AI filters, or just applying high compression/recompressing with new algorithms (which look like smoothing out details)? edit: here's the effect I'm talking about with lossy compression and adaptive quantization: https://cloudinary.com/blog/what_to_focus_on_in_image_compression_fidelity_or_appeal#a_focus_on_appeal https://cloudinary.com/blog/what_to_focus_on_in_image_compre... The result is smoothing of skin, and applied heavily on video (as Youtube does, just look for any old video that was HD years ago) would look this way
- randycupertino 11mo agoIt's filters, I posted an example of it below. Here is a link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO9MwTHCoR_/?igsh=MTZybml2NDBwbmhxMw%3D%3D https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO9MwTHCoR_/?igsh=MTZybml2NDB...
- ares623 11mo agoThe time of giving these corps the benefit of the doubt is over.
- bongodongobob 11mo agoWouldn't this just be unnecessary compute using AI? Compression or just normal filtering seems far more likely. It just seems like increasing the power bill for no reason.
- ares623 11mo agoone thing we know for sure is that since chatgpt humiliated Google, all teams seem to have been given carte blanche freedom to do whatever it takes to make Google the leader again, and who knows what kind of people thrive in that kind of environment. just today we saw what OpenAI is willing to do to eke out any advantage it can.
- michaelt 11mo agoVideo filters aren't a radical new thing. You can apply things like 'slim waist' filters in real time with nothing more than a smartphone's processor. People in the media business have long found their media sells better if they use photoshop-or-whatever to give their subjects bigger chests, defined waists, clearer skin, fewer wrinkles, less shiny skin, more hair volume. Traditional manual photoshop tries to be subtle about such changes - but perhaps going from edits 0.5% of people can spot to bigger edits 2% of people can spot pays off in increased sales/engagement/ad revenue from those that don't spot the edits. And we all know every tech company is telling every department to shoehorn AI into their products anywhere they can. If I'm a Youtube product manager and adding a mandatory makeup filter doesn't need much compute; increases engagement overall; and gets me a $50k bonus for hitting my use-more-AI goal for the year - a little thing like authenticity might not stop me.
- chao- 11mo agoI learned to ignore the AI summaries after the first time I saw one that described the exact OPPOSITE conclusion/stance of the video it purported to summarize.
- Trasmatta 11mo agoAlso I just absolutely hate the tone of them. So obviously AI, and they all have the same structure, ending in "Prepare for a journey through blah blah blah".
- leobg 11mo agoIt would be nice of them to diffuse the clickbait. As it is, when a video has a catchy clickbait title, I screenshot the thumbnail and have ChatGPT give me the solution. Or I’ll copy the URL into a transcript fetcher and feed that into Gemini so I can ask specific questions. He who clickbaits is demoted to the role of “Suggest a topic for me to ask ChatGPT about”.
- matejdro 11mo agoYou can get rid of the clickbait using DeArrow extension: https://dearrow.ajay.app/ https://dearrow.ajay.app/
- ssl-3 11mo agoYou know... When I see something that crosses my threshold of clickbait on my YouTube feed, I just select "Not interested" or "Don't recommend channel". Given the contrast between my usual logged-in Youtube feed, and the rampant sea of unfettered clickbait I see when I've been logged out on any particular device. He who clickbaits is therefore demoted to the role of seldom or never being seen [by me] at all. This makes sense: If the algorithm exists to increase viewership and engagement, then the algorithm therefore serves to show me stuff that I'll watch. It does not serve to present to me things that I will not watch. And it works. I can't even find any clickbaity material right now to reference. It's pretty great.
- superkuh 11mo agoThe citation chain for these mastodon reposts resolves to the Gamers Nexus piece on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrwJgDHJJoE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrwJgDHJJoE
- TheTaytay 11mo agoYes! Thank you! He is talking about AI generated summaries being inaccurate, which is plenty to get up in arms about. A lot of folks here hate AI and YouTube and Google and stuff, but it would be more productive to hate them for what they are actually doing. But most people here are just taking this headline at face value and getting pitchforks out. If you try to watch the makeup guy’s proof, it’s talking about Instagram (not YouTube), doesn’t have clean comparisons, is showing a video someone sent back to him, which probably means it’s a compression artifact, not a face filter that the corporate overlords are hiding from the creator. It is not exactly a smoking gun, especially for a technical crowd.
- jeffbee 11mo agoI, for one, find it extremely odd that any of these video posters believe they get to control whether or not I use, directly or indirectly, an AI to summarize the video for me.
- superkuh 11mo agoThey're under the encouraged belief that they are in control over what is shown on their youtube channel. They think they should control what text is shown under their videos on "their" channel. This illusion of control of presentation has been unconvincing for quite a while but now Alphabet is just throwing around it's weight because there are no other options except youtube for what youtube does: allowing money to flow to people who make videos without the video file host getting sued out of existence. Alphabet does this by mantaining a large standing army of lawyers and a huge money supply. Trivial technical issues like file hosting and network bandwidth have been repeatedly solved by others but when they become popular they're legally attacked and killed.
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- MaxL93 11mo ago"Making AI edits to videos" strikes me as as bit of an exaggeration; it might lead you to think they're actually editing videos rather than simply... post-processing them[1]. That being said, I don't believe they should be doing anything like this without the creator's explicit consent. I do personally think there's probably a good use case for machine learning / neural network tech applied to the clean up of low-quality sources (for better transcoding that doesn't accumulate errors & therefore wastes bitrate), in the same way that RTX Video Super Resolution can do some impressive deblocking & upscaling magic[2] on Windows. But clearly they are completely missing the mark with whatever experiment they were running there. [1] https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/bj1qbwcklg https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/bj1qbwcklg [2] compare https://i.imgur.com/U6vzssS.png https://i.imgur.com/U6vzssS.png & https://i.imgur.com/x63o8WQ.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/x63o8WQ.jpeg (upscaled 360p)
- ssl-3 11mo agoPlease allow me "post-process" your comment a bit. Let me know if I'm doing this right. > "Making AI edits to videos" strikes me as something particularly egregious; it leads a viewer to see a reality that never existed, and that the creator never intended.
- randycupertino 11mo agoIt's not post-processing, they are applying actual filters, here is an example they make his eyes and lips bigger: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO9MwTHCoR_/?igsh=MTZybml2NDBwbmhxMw%3D%3D https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO9MwTHCoR_/?igsh=MTZybml2NDB...
- MaxL93 11mo agoSure, but that's not YouTube. That's Instagram. He says so at 1:30. YouTube is not applying any "face filters" or anything of the sort. They did however experiment with AI upscaling the entire image which is giving the classic "bad upscale" smeary look. Like I said, I think that's still bad and they should have never done it without the clear explicit consent of the creator. But that is, IMO, very different and considerably less bad than changing someone's face specifically.
- stevenalowe 11mo agoEvery YT short looks AI-ified and creepy now
- TazeTSchnitzel 11mo agoThe AI filter applied server-side to YouTube Shorts (and only shorts, not regular videos) is horrible, and it feels like it must be a case of deliberate boiling the frog. If everyone gets used to overly smooth skin, weirdly pronounced wrinkles, waxy hair, and strange ringing around moving objects, then AI-generated content will stand out less when they start injecting it into the feed. At first I thought this must be some client-side upscaling filter, but tragically it is not. There's no data savings at all, and there's no way for uploaders or viewers to turn it off. I guess I wasn't cynical enough.
- api 11mo agoI’ve been saying for a while that the end game for addictive short form chum feeds like TikTok and YouTube Shorts is to drop human creators entirely. They’ll be AI generated slop feeds that people will scroll, and scroll, and scroll. Basically just a never ending feed of brain rot and ads.
- account42 11mo agoOn the one hand it's going to be a horrible dystopia. One the other hand, I am not sad to see "Influencer" cease to be a viable job.
- bitwize 11mo agoYes, but what happens when the AIs themselves begin to brainrot (as happens when they are not fed their usual sustenance of information from humans and the real world)?
- api 11mo agoHave you seen what people watch on these things? It won’t matter. In fact, the surreal incoherent schizo stuff can work well for engagement.
- absoluteunit1 11mo ago> the surreal incoherent schizo stuff can work well for engagement. There’s already popular subreddits (something blursed ai I think) where people upload this type of content and it’s getting decent engagement it seems
- jeeeb 11mo agoI really hate all the AI filters in videos. It makes everyone look like fake humans. I find it hard to believe that anyone would actually prefer this.
- halapro 11mo agoI don't find it hard to believe at all. Have you seen all the "240fps TVs" being sold for the past 15 years? They all apply some weird fake smoothing and people prefer them.
- SilverElfin 11mo agoI’ve also noticed YouTube has unbanned many channels that were previously banned for overt supremacist and racist content. They get amplified a lot more now. Between that and AI slop, I feel like Google is speed running the changes X made over the last few years.
- greenchair 11mo agoAgreed, encouraging diversity of ideas and free expression is great!
- rc_mob 11mo agoWhat is this racist ass comment disguised as a "free speech" comment
- windex 11mo agoThere are entire fake persona videos these days. Leading scientists, economists, politicians, tech guys, are being impersonated wholesale on youtube.
- acomjean 11mo agoI saw this today where "influencers" were taking real doctors from videos and using AI to have them pitch products. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/05/ai-deepfakes-of-real-doctors-spreading-health-misinformation-on-social-media https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/05/ai-deepfakes...
- beezlebroxxxxxx 11mo agoYeah, anyone in Canada has seen AI image ads and AI video ads on youtube purporting to feature or include prominent Canadian politicians (current PM and party leaders). Youtube seems to have just wholesale given up on moderating their ad content.
- koolba 11mo agoWhat’s the point of doing this? I don't understand the justification for the expense or complexity.
- coliveira 11mo agoEvery engineer on Google is now measured on how much AI they use on their products. This is the predictable result.
- AmbroseBierce 11mo agoTalking about AI, Google, and shady tactics, I wouldn't be surprised if soon we discover they are purposefully adding video glitches (deformed characters and so on) in the first handful of iterations when using Veo video generation just so people gets used to trying 3 or 4 times before they receive a good one.
- VTimofeenko 11mo agoWell the current models that cost per output sure love wasting those tokens on telling me how I am the greatest human being ever that only asks questions which get to the very heart of $SUBJECT.
- AmbroseBierce 11mo agoYou are right! Would you like me to pretend I'm able to generate better responses if you just give me more input but will end up just wasting your time and your money? And with some luck when you inevitably end up frustrated you will conclude that it was your fault for not giving me good enough input and not mine for being unable to generate good output, in other words that to you just need to get better at GPTing.
- choilive 11mo agoWhat PM thought this was a good idea? This has to be the result of some braindead we need more AI in the product mandate
- muppetman 11mo agoThey're heating the garbage slightly before serving it? Oh no.
- delichon 11mo agoYouTube should keep their grubby hands off. And give that capability to us instead. I want the power to do personal AI edits built in. Give me a prompt line under each video. Like "replace English with Gaelic", "replace dad jokes with lorem ipsum", "make the narrator's face 25% more symmetrical", "replace the puppy with a xenomorph", "change the setting to Monument Valley", etc.
- someothherguyy 11mo agoi wonder how many years (decades?) out this is still. it would be wild to be able to run something like that locally in a browser. although, it will probably be punishable by death by then.
- absoluteunit1 11mo agoThis made me chuckle lol
- Aurornis 11mo agoThis link is to a Mastodon thread which links to another blog post which links to an actual source on ynetnews.com which quotes another article that has a quote from a YouTube rep. Save yourself the trouble and go straight to that article (although it's not great either): https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/bj1qbwcklg https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/bj1qbwcklg The key section: > Rene Ritchie, YouTube’s creator liaison, acknowledged in a post on X that the company was running “a small experiment on select Shorts, using traditional machine learning to clarify, reduce noise and improve overall video clarity—similar to what modern smartphones do when shooting video.” So the "AI edits" are just a compression algorithm that is not that great.
- Forgeties79 11mo agoh
- somnic 11mo agoYouTube is not hosting and serving uncompressed video so the apt comparison is not "compression" to "no compression" rather than "fancy experimental compression" to "tried and true compression."
- filleduchaos 11mo ago"Clarify, reduce noise, and improve overall video clarity" is not "just a compression algorithm", what? Words have meanings.
- seanmcdirmid 11mo ago“a small experiment on select Shorts, using traditional machine learning to clarify, reduce noise and improve overall video clarity—similar to what modern smartphones do when shooting video.” It looks like quality cleanup, but I can’t imagine many creators aren’t using decent camera tech and editing software for shorts.
- filleduchaos 11mo ago
- ChrisArchitect 11mo agoBeing driven mad by conspiracy paranoia about 'face filters' (possible compression artifacts) is a great example of being AI-pilled. And then the discourse is so riddled with misnomers and baited outrage that it goes nowhere. The other example in submitted post isn't 'edits to videos' but rather the text descriptions of automated captions. The Gemini/AI engine not being very good at summarizing is a different issue.
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- JumpCrisscross 11mo agoFYI, I used to pay for YouTube Premium and have since stopped doing that. Deleting the app and letting ad blockers filter out this nonsense is a superior experience. Strongly recommend. We’ll get local AIs that can skip the cruft soon enough anyway.
- Animats 11mo agoI'm seeing Youtube summary pictures which seem to be AI-generated. I was looking at [1], which is someone in China rebuilding old machines, and some of the newer summary pictures are not frames from the video. They show machines which are the sort of thing you might get by asking a Stable Diffusion type generator to generate a picture from the description. [1] https://www.youtube.com/@linguoermechanic https://www.youtube.com/@linguoermechanic
- sysworld 11mo agoPretty sure this is a feature the uploader can use for YouTube to generate an (ai) thumbnail. I saw it on my channel once, but can't find it back now. You can see it on many MANY channel thumbnails now. At least with the people I follow. I'm not a fan.
- Animats 11mo agoI'm seeing it on more videos now, and it's awful. It's just making stuff up. Badly. Picking out the most relevant frame in the video was better.
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- alex1138 11mo agoSomeone mentioned Insta is doing this too in this comment section I just completely despair. What the fuck happened to the internet? Absolutely none of these CEOs give a shit. People need to face real punishments
- karakot 11mo agoSlopification. On a plus side, I'm more offline later.
- justinclift 11mo ago> Samuel Woolley, a disinformation expert at the University of Pittsburgh, said the company’s wording was misleading. “Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence,” he said. “This is AI.” It's the other way around isn't it? "AI" is a subset of ML.
- Ylpertnodi 11mo agoTrust issues with someone who is "a disinformation expert" - at a university, no less?
- justinclift 11mo agoYes?
- throwawayk7h 11mo ago> "Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence,” he said. No, gen AI is a subset of machine learning.
- eschaton 11mo agoAI is the field. Machine learning is one of many specializations within the field. “Generative AI” is the colloquial term for using various machine learning models to generate text, images, video, code, etc.; that is, it’s a subfield of machine learning. Other subfields of AI include things like search, speech and language understanding, knowledge representation, and so on. There’s a lot more to AI than machine learning and a lot more to machine learning than LLMs (“gen AI”).
- j45 11mo agoThis is wild. I wonder if it will end up being treated as part of a codec instead of edits to the base film, and can then be re-run to undo the video's? It feels like there needs to be a way to verify that what you uploaded is what's on the site.
- ycombigrator 11mo agoYoutube is an AI training data set. There is no way Google thinks it's in their interest to serve up clean data to anyone but themselves.
- tantalor 11mo agoThis story is several months old
- Habgdnv 11mo agoAn amateur tip that I sometimes use after I reencode something to check what i lost: ffmpeg -i source.mkv -i suspect.mkv -filter_complex "blend=all_mode=difference" diff_output.mkv I saw these claims before but still have not found someone to show a diff or post the source for comparison. It would be interesting.
- rpastuszak 11mo agoHehe, I occasionally use a similar approach for visual regression testing: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/visual-snapshot-tests-cheap-bastard-editiontm/ https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/visual-snapshot-tests-cheap...
- jbaber 11mo agoThank you for this good idea and oneliner.
- randoomed 11mo agoJill Bearup posted a video about this a while ago, showing a short and the original side by side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd692naF-Cc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd692naF-Cc (note the short is shown at 0:31) Edit: The changes made by the ai are a lot more vissible in the higher quality video uploaded to patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/136994036 https://www.patreon.com/posts/136994036 (this was also linked in the pinned comment on the youtube video)
- sgerenser 11mo agoThe before/after on this just looks like compression artifacts/smoothing to me.
- AnonHP 11mo agoIt must be my eyes and the small screen on my phone. I couldn’t find any differences in the video on Patreon, which was annoying enough to watch with the actual comparison clip being just a couple of seconds or so, and I had to rewind and check again. I wish it had shown more of the comparisons. Most of the current video was just commentary.
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- nottorp 11mo agoIt's fine, I can't watch youtube anyway with ublock origin on any more :)
- tim333 11mo agoI use it with Origin Lite. Usually works. SponsorBlock is quite good also.
- saint_yossarian 11mo agoWorks perfectly fine here on Firefox, no Premium.
- nottorp 11mo agoLast time i tried it loaded the main UI but the video never showed up.
- bborud 11mo agoI don't understand why Youtube would do this. Both applying these kinds of "enhancements" to video and to do so without consent or even informing people. How is this a smart move? We need more people experimenting with creating a better platform for content creators. Not least so people like Beato, but not as well known, don't constantly get harassed by fraudulent and incorrect copyright infringement claims.
- conartist6 11mo agoIt only takes one ambitious person
- onion2k 11mo ago...to drive away the content producers that are key to the platform's success?
- conartist6 11mo agoExactly. I thought it was fun though that the same statement could just as well apply to creating the platform those producers go to.
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- krapp 11mo agoThe content producers actually bringing in money are all in on AI. Most people on the platform are a net negative for Google.
- krapp 11mo agoThey probably believe these "enhancements" will increase engagement. OR they need to justify the mountain of money they burned on AI somehow. Also there are alternatives to Youtube in the Fediverse like PeerTube.
- mark_l_watson 11mo agoTheir edits on YouTube shorts are hideous but at least it is 100% obvious that artificial edits were applied. I have a funny attitude towards Google: I am a big privacy nut, have read the principle books on privacy, etc. That said, usually running all Google web properties in DuckDuckGo web browser, I tweak my privacy settings, etc. and then still use Google properties. YouTube is probably the highest value Google property for me (despite Gemini use, love using Google Cloud Platform, etc.) I find that the availability of an infinite number of Qi Gong exercise videos, philosophy, tiny bit of politics, science, and nature videos that is it almost infinitely better than HBO, Netflix, etc. I am a paid subscriber to all these services so I am comparing Apples to Apples here. I do hate spending 10 seconds opening a video and realizing that it was created artificially, but I immediately stop watching it so the overhead isn’t too bad. One new feature I really like is if I am watching a long philosophy or science video, I paste the URI into Gemini and ask for a summary and to use what Gemini knows about me to suggest ways the material jives with my specific interests. After watching a long video it is very much worth my time getting a summary and comments that also pull in other references. Sorry for the noisy reply here, but I am saying to use Google properties mindfully, balancing pros and cons, and just use the parts that are useful and only open up sharing private information when you get something tangible for it.
- constantcrying 11mo agoThe insanity of YouTube is their absolute dedication to forcefully introduce features nobody wants and to neglect all aspects of the site which are in desperate need of fixing. The videos on the start page are still misaligned. Which looks almost hilariously amateurish.
- silexia 11mo agoWhat alternatives do we have to youtube for creators?
- nilslindemann 11mo agoIt doesn't matter, YouTube is anyway unwatchable since everything gets autotranslated to hilarious garbage.
- KellyCriterion 11mo agoThe interesting thing is: They do this also in some of the EU countries, it looks to me.