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Well, who would have doubted it? Fuck, 1984 is already here.
Knowing Google, they care more about blurring the lines between AI and reality to confuse and force it onto people than they do about saving a few dollars on storage costs.
Yep.
It’s all about control and manipulation.
They love reminding us who is really in charge.
“AI”
Sharpening, Denoising and upscaling barely count as machine learning. They don’t require AI neural networks.
Barely count or not they absolutely ruin every piece of media I’ve seen them used in. They make people look like wax figures and turn text into gibberish.
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.
My simple rule is that if it uses a neural network model of some kind, then it can be accurately called AI.
just today someone told me that Vocaloid was also AI music, they are either too dumb to make some basic fact-checking or true believers trying to hype up AI by any means necessary
Thisthisthis
They don’t require AI neural networks.
Sharpening and denoising don’t. But upscalers worth anything do require neural nets.
Anything that uses a neural network is the definition of AI.
Not true
Company I used to work for had excellent upscalers running on FPGAs that they developed 20+ years ago.
The algorithms have been there for years, just AI gives it bit of marketing sprinkle to something that has been a solved problem for years.
Well, the algorithms that make up many neural networks have existed for over 60 years. It’s only recently that hardware has been able to make it happen.
AI gives it bit of marketing sprinkle to something that has been a solved problem for years.
Not true and I did say “any upscaler that’s worth anything”. Upscaling tech has existed at least since digital video was a thing. Pixel interpolation is the simplest and computationally easiest method. But it tends to give a slight hazy appearance.
It’s actually far from a solved problem. There’s a constant trade-off beyond processing power and quality. And quality can still be improved by a lot.
at least since digital video
Right. Even back in the eighties UK broadcasters were “upscaling” American NTSC 480i60 shows to 576i50. The results were varied. High-ticket shows like Friends and Fraiser looked great, albeit a bit soft and oversaturated, while live news feeds looked terrible. If you’ve never seen it, The Day Today has a perfect example of what a lot of US programmes lookd like converted to PAL.
Ya, I knew there were analogue “upscalers”, but I’m not familiar enough with them to confidently call them an upscaler vs a signal converter.
Depends on what you’re trying to upscale.
But you can use AI for that
It’s very likely to do with compression codecs to save money.
Ostensibly, yes. Just like the Patriot Act was to fight terrorism.
I KNEW THOSE SHORTS I’VE BEEN WATCHING HAD THE “AI LOOK” GOD-DAMNIT! With the smooth faces and the weird plastic looking contrast.
yucky, shorts lol
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
This is shitty journalism that massively distorts what actually happened. It’s just traditional video filters, and AI panic.
Legitimate critique of this demonic technology is not FUD!
There is no AI panic. There is a distrust against the intention of the companies pushing it. Can you trust Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Anthropic etc?
There is an AI panic, just like there was a microprocessor panic 50 years ago. Distrust and panic are different things. There is also AI distrust. There is also an AI revolution, an AI bubble, and a whole new AI epoch. There’s lots of AI shit going on right now, and panic is certainly one of them.
This article is AI panic because it’s what we would call a hallucination if an LLM wrote it. There is no AI in this story. People in a panic often jump at nothing.
Counterpoint: no they couldn’t.
