YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without telling users or asking permission. As AI quietly mediates our world, what happens to our shared connections with real life?
Or give an option to toggle. Surely letting people turn it off would save them even more resources, if they don’t have to bother with upscaling the video in the first place.
I mean yeah, it doesn’t seem entirely unreasonable. But if it actually was reasonable, wouldn’t they just inform the uploader?
Or give an option to toggle. Surely letting people turn it off would save them even more resources, if they don’t have to bother with upscaling the video in the first place.
It likely costs them less to upscale than it does to store and serve a full sized video, so they’re not giving the uploader the choice.
Storage is very cheap. This only makes sense if they actually do the upscaling client side