It’s very likely to do with compression codecs to save money.
“AI”
Sharpening, Denoising and upscaling barely count as machine learning. They don’t require AI neural networks.
But you can use AI for that
Sharpening is a simple convolution, doesn’t even count as ML.
I really hate that everything gets the AI label nowadays
The “ai bad” brainrot has everyone thinking that any algorithm is AI and all AI is ChatGPT.
Thisthisthis
yucky, shorts lol
I KNEW THOSE SHORTS I’VE BEEN WATCHING HAD THE “AI LOOK” GOD-DAMNIT! With the smooth faces and the weird plastic looking contrast.
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
