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YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators (arstechnica.com)
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Is it a conspiracy? For months, YouTubers have been quietly griping that something looked off in their recent video uploads. Following a deeper analysis by a popular music channel, Google has now confirmed that it has been testing a feature that uses AI to artificially enhance videos. The company claims this is part of its effort to "provide the best video quality," but it's odd that it began doing so without notifying creators or offering any way to opt out of the experiment.

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[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's a public facing platform.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Your two braincells are misfiring, bud.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

So by that logic, everything they do is public, whether they talk about it or not?

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works -1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

No. But the thing we're talking about is. It's a lot like farting in an elevator with just one other person and trying to convince them they did it. You both know who did it and what they did pretty quickly.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

More like you've gotten in the elevator fart-free with someone many times before, but then they planned to fart next time without telling you. We all know who did it, the problem is that the other person wasn't aware that what happens in that elevator ride was going to change because they kept it a secret until the doors shut, and then there was no way out