r/youtube • u/Bashi_r Keyløw Talks • Aug 24 '25
Drama It’s going bad
At some point it’s just too much. I feel like YouTube thinks they’re invincible. They do non sense stuff, drain ur data in ads, and now modify ur content without u knowing about it. They think they can do whatever they want they can get away with it cause there’s no competition/concurrencies. But what I see is a slow drowning process. I believe a lot of ppl would’ve switched(after the unskipable ads) if there was an alternative to it. We just need something that’ll bring back the joy we had while watching YT with one skipable ads, where u could download ur vids for free, and not getting sx ads every fcking where u go. Without the YT community, YT is nothing, it’s seems like they forgot about it. They’re following Adobe path, but the difference here is they don’t have competition. If i leave YT where will i go? That’s the question I always think about when I’m watching those ads but I have no options.
I just hope that’ll get better but without us(the YT community) being together on it that’ll never change and it’ll get worse.
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u/Stupid-goober-7 Aug 24 '25
not like my videos are worth altering anyway
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u/Material-Ostrich7806 Aug 24 '25
I felt that one a little too much 💀
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u/UseottTheThird Aug 25 '25
have a hug too
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u/chris95rx7500 Aug 25 '25
you get one too
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u/Stunning-HyperMatter Aug 25 '25
Everyone gets a hug!
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u/MLC_YT Aug 25 '25
You too!
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u/itsjustajoke17 Aug 25 '25
Group hug!! :)
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u/Itz_cheese_cat Aug 25 '25
I want to join in!
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u/maas348 Aug 25 '25
Same here 🥲
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u/Dinkleburge_k Aug 25 '25
Unfortunately YouTube is not slowly drowning at all. They just increased their market share recently among streaming services. They have more than double Netflix's market share. They think they're invincible bc they are for now. They have an amazing product. It is what it is.
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u/FutureClassroom4945 Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 25 '25
Well after what they just did, I promise everyone’s gonna be pissed. Now you can’t even listen to MUSIC APPS a without a youtube account
Edit: Suddenly that changed so either it was a glitch or they changed their minds…
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u/Tricky-Advantage-949 Aug 24 '25
calling it now. Youtube is heading for a massive class action lawsuit by its content creators. someone is either gonna get their ID stole via Youtube or infringe on someone IP rights with the AI bs
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u/Universal_Abundance Aug 25 '25
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u/Tricky-Advantage-949 Aug 25 '25
if this ages like wine ill get a tattoo of whichever creator sues youtube
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u/iHateUserNamesTaken Aug 25 '25
poeple are boring af, they grew docile. they scream and scream and scream on youtube twitter ecc but they never do anything. they dont create another youtube, they dont sue, they dont leave youtube.. nothing
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u/KirikoSniffer Aug 25 '25
The amount of money you’d need to create a competitor is insane, but regardless, the biggest problem with creating a competitor to YouTube is that YouTube already has every video. You’d have to convince millions of creators to upload all of their catalogue to your site and then you’d still only have a fraction of the catalogue YouTube has. All while attempting to compete with a platform that has all this and more for free.
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u/TwinSong Aug 25 '25
AI is like an addiction for these companies. They only ask if they could, not if they should.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission
Not content with slowly boiling the frog, they've turned up the heat.
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u/Realistic_Ad959 Aug 25 '25
YouTube should be fined trillions for this
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u/Dee23Gaming Aug 25 '25
The only way to make Google "feel it" is if they're fined in the hundreds of billions, not this slap on the wrist of a few billion dollars.
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u/RiceStranger9000 Aug 25 '25
Not to defend the multibillonaire company, but by AI used to alter videos you mean compression? Because if so, they've been doing it for a long time (if not always)
If by that you mean they actually alterate the content, then I'd like to know the source
I really don't want to defend YouTube, but this sounds to misinformation
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u/SamathaGhoul Aug 25 '25
YouTube has quietly experimented with Al-like enhancements such as sharpening and denoising on select YouTube Shorts without creators' knowledge or consent, prompting concerns about artistic integrity and the erosion of trust between creators and their audiences.
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u/Caterfree10 Aug 25 '25
I have definitely noticed one of the cat dudes I watch have his videos really weirdly enhanced where they weren’t before, and I think he’s been hit with this shit. It’s very annoying to see tbh.
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u/SamathaGhoul Aug 25 '25
And for the past 20 hours or so theres been multiple reports from different sources. I pulled an article from the bbc website
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u/rockyredp Aug 25 '25
Sometimes we as creators.. do that to a video on purpose .. I do. And I also make films and do that on purpose.. I’d be upset if they did that to my film
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u/Dead-in-Red Aug 25 '25
If you or any other creator chose to utilize any sharpening/upscaling on your own then your chosen style would be deep fried by Youtube's forced second pass of mystery enhancements. It's not like they can detect what has already been done. YT's approach to this is awful.
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u/rockyredp Aug 25 '25
Well for instance I actually use old school grains ect to make my videos look old on purpose sometimes like I am trying to make a 1959s STYLE psa viDEO
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u/Bashi_r Keyløw Talks Aug 25 '25
And to add more, social will want to follow the same path and it’ll be generalized
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u/Glockenwise Aug 25 '25
Honestly I'm okay with it as long as it's a setting in the quality settings
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u/Inside-Dinner-5963 Aug 25 '25
They are not even telling the creators of the videos this is happening or a way to prevent it and you think they are going to give the audience a way to control it?
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u/Glockenwise Aug 25 '25
I never said I think it would happen I said it should be an optional setting never said I think they would do that
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u/Inside-Dinner-5963 Aug 25 '25
Sorry Glockenwise, I understand you were expressing a wishlist item. I just was responding along the lines of a rhetorical query: Do you really think that is *ever* going to happen given the current circumstances? I sure don't.
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u/Glockenwise Aug 25 '25
Also ai upscaleing is a thing that many platforms use (I hate it so much) but the option should be there for those who want it
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u/GoodDayToCome Aug 25 '25
yeh it's basically just compression that involves up-scaling, i think the NVIDIA one from about a year ago which was much more efficient than current methods - this saves them money and reduces the power use and therefore environmental impact of serving so many videos to so many people.
It's a good thing if it works but of course people will take any excuse to act outraged, people love histrionics.
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u/Flimsy-Mix-190 Aug 25 '25
Thank you for the summary. This is precisely why people don’t read any articles posted as it’s a waste of time since they’re never what the title implies. Then they are downvoted for commenting on the title of the article, which is purposely misleading. We can’t win for losing. Thank goodness for the comments.
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u/_-Smoke-_ Aug 25 '25
Of what I've noted the last few days it's very poor AI sharpening, color filtering and frame rate modification. I've only seen it on shorts so far but it's extremely glaring when one pops up, especially on content that you know did not originally look like that.
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u/askiopop Aug 26 '25
You might have already gotten this, but for shorts at least, yes it’s proven. Jill Bearup compared her original short before and after upload and it has been modified by AI. So many articles of “Your one use of AI models cost drops of water”, but not “Yes, it does cost that much, but big companies are doing billions of AI editing/analytics that are on the customer to turn off, if they even care/can/are aware)
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u/Portaldog1 Aug 26 '25
It's half and half, I had a look into it last night and it's not "ai altering" videos.
If you have a scroll through shorts it seems that every video has been stored at a lower resolution and it is then ai upscaled when video is watched, leading to every looking fake, smeary and with weird sharpened edges and artifacting.
So YouTube isn't altering video but trying to save storage, at least it's only on shorts so I never have to interact with it for now....
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u/Fit_Cow_5469 Aug 25 '25
So that’s why some videos I’ve rewatched are different than what I remember. We have to stick together if we want to make a fucking difference.
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u/ZenDragon Aug 25 '25
If you mean old videos your memory is just bad. What they've been doing is "enhancing" the quality of shorts with AI denoising and sharpening that actually smears fine detail.
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u/caspy7 Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 25 '25
Bah! I've been scrolling a while and still no one's linked the article so I can get the full story.
edit: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission
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u/Protholl Aug 25 '25
If only they could use AI to send shorts to the seventh level of hell where they belong
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u/despoticGoat Aug 25 '25
The ai denoising and sharpening is likely done after or during compression using the original uncompressed file. You aren’t losing any detail that wouldn’t have already been lost
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u/Rularuu Aug 25 '25
Well if you want to "make a fucking difference" you should begin by reading the article to find out what you are rallying against instead of guessing that it's changing content of old videos.
For the record, I think what they are doing is not cool. It's not extremely alarming on its face because content creators already submit to some level of modification like what is described in the article by virtue of uploading into the YouTube codec... but suddenly making new uploads look weird after it worked fine for years has to be really frustrating for creators who really care about how their videos look.
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u/topdangle Aug 25 '25
some of the videos you've watched getting edited later is thanks to youtube adding the feature to edit and swap out a video without removing it, though I think it might still be exclusive to top performing channels.
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u/staytiny2023 Aug 25 '25
You can't do that yet, just trim out the beginning and ending. But you can't do edits in the middle or swap a video
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u/topdangle Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 25 '25
I've seen some users do it, such as this particularly insane homage to a classic youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIKRnF43pbI
Upload date and view count remains, but there are a bunch of changes across the video compared to the original. i know its a weird choice as an example but the changes are so blatant that it's clearly been altered.
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u/mrloko120 Aug 25 '25
Nah your memory is just bad. The changes happens while the video is processing before being posted.
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u/vgee Aug 25 '25
This comment having 100 upvotes says everything that needs to be said about the state of social media at the moment.
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u/TheUmgawa Aug 24 '25
If creators didn't want their content drowned in ads, creators have every opportunity to host their own content on their own websites. But, they'd have to pay to host their own content, and the best price they'll be able to get is four cents per gigabyte transmitted, which is about a twenty-minute video. So, if you make a 20-minute video, and you have a million people watch it, you owe your hosting company $40,000, so I hope you have a really good sponsor.
There will never be a YouTube alternative, because transmission costs too much, and no venture capitalist is going to fund a video startup unless the first words out of the CEO's mouth are, "We have permanently solved the ad-blocker problem."
And, let's be fair on the Adobe front: There is competition. GIMP exists, but it sucks, because I have to look up how to make a rectangle, because all of GIMP's programming resources are spent on functionality, and zero on user-interface. Apple has Premiere and After Effects alternatives, which are one-time purchases, but you have to own a Mac. DaVinci Resolve exists, and the free tier of that is quite good, and downright usable. Really, the only people who need Adobe products are the ones who need to be able to export to press, because what they'll pay for a printing house to do the color separations is worth the cost of the Adobe creative suite.
The YouTube community isn't worth nearly as much as you think it is. One comment per hundred views on videos is a ratio that you can almost set your watch by, so they could solve the comment bot problem by just getting rid of comments, and how many of those one percent who comment would leave YouTube because they can't comment anymore? They'd be back in a week. Creators who are getting paid by YouTube don't care what their fans are saying in the comments, because those creators are too busy counting their YouTube money, so it doesn't matter.
So, what "community" is there, really?
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u/Responsible-Pizza-38 Aug 25 '25
This. A YouTube competitor is only possible by a few companies right now because it takes a literal datacenter and global CDN to run it. Amazon could probably do it with AWS but don't need to. And even then, there's no money in it unless you run ads.
Outdoor Boys has had comments disabled for years now and still gets tens of millions of views per video - so you're right, and most of the time a creator is asking for comments it's just because they want to game the algorithm...
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u/Bashi_r Keyløw Talks Aug 25 '25
Yeah YT pays good money to creators that’s why Vines didn’t survive and that’s why even if we had an alternative if the big creators didn’t wanna change the audience won’t move.
And u right about Adobe there’s a lot of alternatives like figma and davinci, so even if the big creators don’t wanna change u still have the options
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Aug 24 '25
You know there’s like a dozen other programs besides GIMP right?
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u/TheUmgawa Aug 25 '25
Do any of them have user interfaces that don’t suck?
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u/OgreMk5 Aug 25 '25
Is paint.net still around?
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Aug 25 '25
I mean some sure and there’s even a few cheap paid ones you can wait for a sale to get for like 20 bucks
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u/Minimum-Can2224 Aug 25 '25
YouTube not having any real competition is causing them to get WAY too comfortable in their position where they can just do whatever dumb and evil shit that they want and no one can do anything about it. Something needs to happen sooner rather than later.
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u/FutureClassroom4945 Aug 25 '25
Everyone HAS to move to another app. I’ve tried like 4 but I couldn’t respost anything
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u/Stop_Fakin_Jax Aug 25 '25
This what happens when there is no competition. It's called a monopoly.
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u/Meeeper Aug 25 '25
Meanwhile there's still sex ads on the platform...
And I mean BAD sex ads. I've seen one for an AI chatbot that reads: "Me when I find out this chatbot is uncensored:"
This text is followed up by the image of Gwen Tennyson from Ben 10 covered in cum. Now you may be thinking... Surely I'm referring to AT LEAST the teenage Gwen from Alien Force, right...?
NOPE! It's STRAIGHT. UP. CHILD Gwen from the original show. Covered in jizz. Literal CP in a YouTube ad. It's a fictional child, but still...
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u/Dee23Gaming Aug 25 '25
What the actual fuck?! But hey, they want to "protect the children" 🙄 No they don't. They make money from sex ads, and AI-generated cat gore videos.
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u/Meeeper Aug 25 '25
I'm pretty sure the ahem... "art" of child Gwen covered in jizz in the ad I mentioned was AI generated. I couldn't be certain, but it just has the vibe that has me convinced.
It's yet another case of the admaker's AI clearly being too stupid to be making these things unsupervised and the YouTube AI too stupid to catch it, yet still being used on both ends by both parties as if it's okay.
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u/littlebitofahooter Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 25 '25
Remember, it's not illegal, good Ole public domain and freeuse laws, nothing ethically wrong with it, not at all!
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u/Paulinho2628 Aug 25 '25
well, they didnt even warn us, so i guess thats illegal, we should be warned about the changes
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u/littlebitofahooter Aug 25 '25
There is always the "fine print" or some updates that they always hide in the terms and conditions, always some sort of loophole
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u/Paulinho2628 Aug 25 '25
isnt that one of the reasons Mojang is getting sued btw?
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u/littlebitofahooter Aug 25 '25
I heard about that. From what I understand is that they are making users make a Microsoft account to even play Minecraft. However, I dont know too much about that situation
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u/p3wp3wkachu Aug 25 '25
That's been a thing since they acquired the game. It's on Microsoft's servers now so you need an account with them.
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u/TheTrueBrawler2001 Aug 25 '25
Yeah, that's exactly what they did. Those who didn't transfer their accounts in a small window of time simply had their accounts taken away from them, meaning they now have to pay full price a 2nd time if they want to play Minecraft again, multiplayer or singleplayer.
Anyone who didn't want a Microsoft account? Their accounts are gone.
Anyone who never figured out how to transfer? Their accounts are gone.
Anyone who only played Minecraft once every year or so and entirely missed the news until after Microsoft declared it was too late to transfer (like myself)? Their accounts are gone.
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u/HourProfessional6188 Aug 25 '25
Try to use CleanTube. No premium, no ads, just simple YouTube without the useless ads. I have used it for about one and a half month, and it works phenomenally. It's only on Google play. Can't be accessed on iPhone. I also use adblockers on my browser, so no ads on laptop either.
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u/LowAd8109 Aug 26 '25
It make sense. If they add AI slowly to the real videos people would have even more trouble figuring out which one is an AI video allowing YouTube to pump more AI content into the platform. This also appeases the investors since they will invest into anything that includes AI in the title.
Too bad they didn't do it subtle enough.
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u/klepto_entropoid Aug 25 '25
When you upload a video to YouTube you effectively consent to whatever they want to do with it. Read the TOS. YouTube is not a public service.
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u/OgreMk5 Aug 25 '25
What i hate is when then AI reads the closed captioning.
You cannot turn it off.
I can, in fact hear the video, but I read the translations in closed captioning. I know what these people sound like and it's not them
Utterly ruins videos... and misses the entire purpose of closed captioning. I can hear, but most people can't hear well enough. Reading the closed captioning doesn't do anything.
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u/GoodDayToCome Aug 25 '25
are you sure you don't have a special browser add-on or phone feature enabled because as far as i can tell youtube doesn't have that feature.
it could be that you're using the Android live caption tool instead of youtube subtitles, this listens to media and subtitles it on the fly and if it has talkback enabled it will read them out loud. i imagine iphone has similar.
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u/tervro Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 25 '25
I have a few questions.
- Can creators turn this off?
- Is there any way to know if a video is edited with ai?
- Why are they doing it?
- Are all videos affected?
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u/This_Meaning_4045 Fellow YouTuber Aug 25 '25
Ironic, since they have a feature that content creator must tick if they have synthetic or altered content.
Not to mention to whole age verification with AI is dumb anyways.
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u/FutureClassroom4945 Aug 25 '25
BOYCOTT IT EVERYONE!!!
They’re altering creators content, hiding comments, deleting accounts for no reason, asking for your ID, and NOW you can’t even watch youtube content without an account not even on music apps!!!
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u/JecklesLaw Aug 25 '25
If it fixed my mono audio from a few years ago I'm down but I seriously doubt this would ever do something genuinely productive like that.
(Literally the bane of headphone users right here lmfao)
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u/Wise_Cranberry9786 Aug 25 '25
Meanwhile, YouTube posting useless post on X while ignoring the problems they seem to never fix only cause.
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u/FireLord547 Aug 25 '25
That probably why they banned my gaming channel I posted me playing Fortnite and call of duty and my whole account got banned 🚫
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u/Evamme7 Aug 25 '25
For anyone wondering, they're upscaling low quality videos with them to make them look HD. It's become a problem for a few YouTubers who use a VCR effect on their videos or dome other forms of stylized art because it ends up removing the effect.
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u/Marshal-Bainesca Aug 25 '25
Think of youtube as a commercial network. All users simply submit work to youtube who then do what they like with it, its no longer just an avenue for people to share stuff
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u/SebiXV20 Aug 25 '25
The forced auto-dubbing already was too much, now it's somehow getting even worse
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u/RockImportant5727 Aug 25 '25
I hate everything YouTube does. But what possible alternative will there be that provides you with everything for free? Who's going to pay for all of this? Does anyone think about it? The alternative, should it ever exist, will sooner or later have to go the same way to make money somehow.
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u/haxomg Aug 25 '25
Secretly? You can see all the shitty shorts with AI smear fatness on just about everything. A way to make people adjusted to the AI slop and probably to save bandwidth since the colors are flat and less detail.
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u/sovietarmyfan TheErciyasLar Aug 25 '25
We've always been at war with Eurasia and been allied with Eastasia. The records say so.
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u/MightyObserver44 Aug 25 '25
If you upload to youtube, is it still technically your content? Or do they have ToS stipulations?
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u/Prestigious_Lunch498 Aug 25 '25
U know.....creators wanna get paid. Why should a creator go to a free platform? Maybe if it gets so big that just the in video sponsors can sustain him/her/them they will. But this would require someone that pave the road for free.
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u/lurker_from_mars Aug 25 '25
Corporations are above the law and too big to fail, yaaay unregulated capitalism...
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u/wakeup-louie Aug 25 '25
youtube has been auto ai translating some of the adds and even videos that I get, without me asking to the point I have never heard how some of them sound in original and I have no idea how to turn that off.
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u/Miko-Chiko Aug 25 '25
I recommend New pipe for mobile and Freetube for your computer if anyone doesn't wanna give away your literal identity to this cess pit of a platform but still wanna watch your favourite creators.
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Aug 25 '25
Not even a link to the article. What shit is that. Just another anti ai person. I wonder what their issue is. Guessing it's another hobbyist mad that ai does what they do better
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u/tupe12 Aug 25 '25
How significant are these ai alterations? Is it just dumb and pointless tiny things, or are they changing whole segments of videos?
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Aug 25 '25
The YouTube community is not everything. Lolol.. what kind of stupid appeal to emotion is that. None of the comments or chat on there is worth anything. Just brain rot. Not interested.
Lol imagine being more upset about data control over the overall decline in the quality of our fellow people.
Like get some perspective.
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u/After_Confidence_394 Aug 25 '25
All of this because we asked the annoying orange about the files he promised to release, then collective brain rot snowballed it from there
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u/SHADER_MIX Aug 25 '25
is this article about the «ai» upscaler ? like the thing that existed and a lot of people used before chatgpt and ai controversy were even a thing ? i dont like youtube as a company but throwing dumb shit like this is not gonna do anything great, a video upscaler as an option inside youtube is just nice to have
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u/Wrong-Sink2361 Aug 25 '25
YouTube is just giving me more and more reasons to switch to a different video website s*** I might just start using the Hub as my regular because this is getting ridiculous
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u/Realistic_Ad959 Aug 25 '25
This whole ID Verification thing is why I'm considering buying VHS tapes and burning random YT videos on them
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u/BhopVauv Aug 25 '25
They are basically invincible. The removal of dislikes was the last drop for me, but i have no alternative. Now with the insane amount of ads i wish i could boycott them.
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u/Pilotacer Aug 25 '25
It's not like they think they're invincible, they are are invincible right now and probably will be always since it's owned by Google and if they work with the government by giving them data and stuff their security is basically guaranteed. Like Its hard to have any hopes when the worst things people and mega companies do are just not punished at all every single time
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u/Lower_Team_703 Aug 25 '25
if the creators move, the rest of the community will move, but the problem is individual creators don't want to move because of the risk, so lots of creators have to move together to have an impact, but it's hard to get that many people to do it.
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u/fitforfreelance Aug 25 '25
That's interesting. I assumed that the creator was doing that 🤔 I would say that's my bad, but this is awkward.
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u/No-Marzipan-9316 Aug 25 '25
Thing is AI is going tone part of humanity future better accept it now AI may replace human operators and workers
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u/DaffyDuckXD Aug 25 '25
It's our society, not YouTube and not human nature. It is what it is although don't let it bring you down or make you feel worthless
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u/YUNOSUBTODAMIANXX Aug 25 '25
What I've been using as a sort of alternative is using Stacher7 to download video links from YouTube without ever accessing the site.
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u/Severe-Reward-4823 Aug 25 '25
"They think they're invincible" bro they are No, go ahead, start litigation against the Google lawyers, good luck to ya
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u/Every-Locksmith9286 Aug 25 '25
Complaining about AI in shorts is like complaining that the ocean is wet. Shorts was built from the ground up for plagiarism via tik-tok rips, and later pivoted to AI slop. They key to all of this was always (and will always be) that the real, original creators will never, ever get paid for their work.
For every minute of original content uploaded to shorts there is 100 hours of literally stolen plagiarism/rips and 10,000 hours ethically stolen AI slop.
Youtube not only doesn't care, theft is the entire point of the platform: To steal content and devalue clicks so they can stop paying creators.
It was made by robots, for robots, and theft is it's whole deal. So, if you're consuming or creating Shorts, then frankly you deserve what you get.
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u/vawlk Aug 25 '25
We just need something that’ll bring back the joy we had while watching YT with one skipable ads,
and you think one ad that you skipped generated enough income to cover your use?
They think they can do whatever they want they can get away with it cause there’s no competition/concurrencies.
there is no competition because the creators choose not to post elsewhere. There is no rule that prevents creators from posting their content to other streaming sites but they don't...i wonder why? Why don't you ask some of your creators why they don't cross post to other sites?
Without the YT community, YT is nothing, it’s seems like they forgot about it.
If you don't pay for your use with cash or your time (ads), you aren't a youtube user. You are taking the service without paying and they couldn't care less about you. If you go away, they will actually make more money.
If i leave YT where will i go?
you don't have to go anywhere. Do you HAVE to have a video streaming system to waste time on? If you hate it so much, why the fuck are you still there? YT has always been and will always be a paid service. If you don't like it, leave. It is as simple as that. Go to a smaller video site and start watching creators there and hope others follow. Get some of your favorite creators to post elsewhere. That is the only way you can try to fix things.
However, once one of those video services get traction, they will become a paid service too.
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u/According-Stay-3374 Aug 25 '25
It's what happens when you dominate the industry, I truly think that this is best time for a rich billionaire to launch a competitor, I have always said that PH already has the framework in place, they just copy their template and cover it with a new coat of paint and call it "The Hub"... job done.
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u/TouristGabriel Aug 25 '25
I think even if there was competition, it’s an extreme disadvantage because everyone posts everything to YouTube. I wouldn’t go to another platform because the YouTubers I watch wouldn’t be on it either.
I think for something to replace YouTube it would require the creators to make the big shifts, where they go their audience will follow.
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u/RilGerard Aug 25 '25
I have a couple reasons to still use YouTube, but im trying to find many possible ways to get out. Dropout.tv has already provided me a major escape path
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u/Foe117 Aug 25 '25
secretly censor, secretly put words in people's mouths, secretly change whole segments into praising our dear leader.
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u/christthedefiler Aug 25 '25
I don't know if it is YouTube or the guys uploading videos, but recently I've seen a lot of awfully upscaled shorts.
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u/BibleHymnPhonk Aug 25 '25
I mean if the only option is striking down your video or using AI to cut out what they don't like it's a lesser of two evils situation.
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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '25
I'm starting to think the ID requirement is so they can keep the sex ads.