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>>mystra+(OP)
A makeup influencer I follow noticed youtube and instagram are automatically adding filters to his face without permission to his videos. If his content was about lip makeup they make his lips enormous and if it was about eye makeup the filters make his eyes gigantic. They're having AI detecting the type of content and automatically applying filters.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO9MwTHCoR_/?igsh=MTZybml2NDB...

The screenshots/videos of them doing it are pretty wild, and insane they are editing creators' uploads without consent!

>>randyc+G6
This is an experiment in data compression.

>>echelo+i8
If any engineers think that's what they're doing they should be fired. More likely it's product managers who barely know what's going on in their departments except that there's a word "AI" pinging around that's good for their KPIs and keeps them from getting fired.

>>plorg+k9
> If any engineers think that's what they're doing they should be fired.

Seriously?

Then why is nobody in this thread suggesting what they're actually doing?

Everyone is accusing YouTube of "AI"ing the content with "AI".

What does that even mean?

Look at these people making these (at face value - hilarious, almost "cool aid" levels of conspiratorial) accusations. All because "AI" is "evil" and "big corp" is "evil".

Use occam's razor. Videos are expensive to store. Google gets 20 million videos a day.

I'm frankly shocked Google hasn't started deleting old garbage. They probably should start culling YouTube of cruft nobody watches.

>>echelo+D9
If you want insight into why they haven't deleted "old garbage" you might try, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Zuboff. Pretty enlightening.

>>hatman+pa
I'm pretty sure those 12 year olds uploading 24 hour long Sonic YouTube poops aren't creating value.