I KNEW THOSE SHORTS I'VE BEEN WATCHING HAD THE "AI LOOK" GOD-DAMNIT! With the smooth faces and the weird plastic looking contrast.
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2025
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It's a great way to make money. Pay extra to opt out of AI enhancement!
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.
I know. Not even one percent of the population can see and hear the difference. Most people can't even tell what's human-made and what's AI slop.
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.
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
Well, youtube is not even intended to host quality content anymore, but besides that, this appears to just be visual tweaks. This title is trying to be vague enough that one could assume it's tweaking the content itself which would be of real concern. It's not doing that (for now). Video graphics seems like an awefully minor thing to be screaming about AI over. Especially when AI has actual reprocussions in the knowledge accuracy sector.
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Counterpoint: no they couldn’t.