Youtube has started doing AI upscales. Be careful what you archive from now on.

@lynne FWIW, there's a yt-dlp invocation here to exclude the upscaled versions from the format selection: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15325#issuecomment-3652334462

(Also, alt text: a screenshot of yt-dlp showing the available formats for a video; some of them are marked as "AI-upscaled" in the format comments)

How to avoid Youtube's new "Super Resolution" AI-upscaled formats · Issue #15325 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp

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@joepie91 @lynne Aaaaegh 😱 , more nonsense that I neee to add to my yt-dlp config.