| ▲ | usefulposter 2 hours ago | |
YouTube/Google doesn't give a shit anymore. They will mangle your video and audio and serve users "enhanced" "improved" "upscaled" encodes without telling you. --- "YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators" - Aug 25, 2025 https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/08/youtube-secretly-test... "YouTube will let you opt out of AI upscaling on low-res videos" - Oct 29, 2025 https://www.theverge.com/news/808717/youtube-automatic-ai-up... --- Not only that, YouTube turned many old videos shot in portrait (from the 2010s and before!) into engagement-boosting "Shorts" crap which get horribly mangled in their own way. "Notice a weird beauty filter on Shorts? YouTube says it's on purpose" - Aug 26, 2025 https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-shorts-upscaling-ex... | ||