h o ʍ l e t tAug 26, 2025

→ YouTube’s Sneaky AI ‘Experiment’
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/youtube-shorts-ai-upscaling/683946/

“[…] #YouTube is using AI to tweak videos on its platform, without #creators’ knowledge.”

“This is an odd turn for "social" media to take. Platforms that are supposedly based on the idea of connecting #people with one another, or at least sharing experiences and performances—YouTube’s slogan until 2013 was "Broadcast #Yourself"—now seem focused on getting us to consume #impersonal, algorithmic gruel.”

#AI #tweak #gruel #videos

YouTube’s Sneaky AI ‘Experiment’

The video platform is quietly using AI to “improve clarity” in uploaded content. Why?

The Atlantic
Vic BonillaJul 16, 2025

Yeah… this is where I see AI going
#cold #lazy #impersonal

https://youtu.be/J_fIs2tg5-Y?si=5BZtZuXLwKJ40zRc

THX 1138 Confessional Scenes

YouTube
Show thread⎯ΘωΘ⟶Oct 29, 2022

#Verb
#φῠ́ω • (#phúō)

1. (#transitive) #To #bring #forth, #produce, #generate, #cause to #grow
2. (transitive) To #beget, #bear, #give #birth to
3. (#intransitive) To grow, #arise, #spring #up
4. (intransitive, #present #tense) to #become
5. (intransitive, #aorist and #perfect)
6. (#copulative) To #be #by #nature
7. (intransitive) To be #naturally #disposed to, #prone
8. (#impersonal) #It #is #natural, #happens #naturally
9. to #be #one's natural #lot