Popular YouTubers Rick Beato and Rhett Shull discovered the platform was quietly altering their videos with AI; the company admits to a limited experiment, raising concerns about trust, consent and media manipulation
My rational thoughts are telling me this is just so Google can stream video at doo doo resolution to save their server bandwidth and get a simple AI model and upscaling filters on device to blow up the image to a suitable level.
My emotional thoughts and conspiracy brain are telling me this is Google getting users used to AI slop by making legitimate human content look more like AI slop. I’ve noticed these filters occasionally and it really makes videos I know are real people more slop-like.
My rational thoughts are telling me this is just so Google can stream video at doo doo resolution to save their server bandwidth and get a simple AI model and upscaling filters on device to blow up the image to a suitable level.
My emotional thoughts and conspiracy brain are telling me this is Google getting users used to AI slop by making legitimate human content look more like AI slop. I’ve noticed these filters occasionally and it really makes videos I know are real people more slop-like.