Is YouTube secretly applying an AI filter to Shorts without telling creators? I recently noticed my videos looked strange and smeary on YouTube compared to Instagram, almost like a cheap deep fake. In this video, I investigate what’s going on and why I believe it’s a massive problem for everyone on this platform.
After talking with Rick Beato and seeing discussions on Reddit about the same “oil painting” effect on videos from creators like Hank Green, it’s clear there is some kind of non-consensual AI upscaling being applied to our content. For me, this is a huge issue that threatens to erode the most important thing a creator has: the trust of their audience.
Hope we can get more video makers to move to peertube.
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As the video demonstrates, the creators are part of those “few people” though and so are probably other people showing up in those videos. Many of them care about picture quality and/or what they themselves look like on the screen. They don’t want AI to mess with their videos without neither being informed, nor having any way to influence the outcome.
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Youtube is actively gunning for a top spot among the short form video giants, enough noise and pushback to doing this nonconsensually from large creators (who also stop posting shorts in the meanwhile) is likely to seriously hamstring that effort, which means lost money, which means youtube can be forced to care. They’re more vulnerable to this than, say, tiktok, who’s already at the top.
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This is like when Xerox sometimes copied numbers wrong because their error correction algorithms were flawed
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https://dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning
Sometimes it lead to class action lawsuits
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