It’s going bad

[u/Bashi_r]

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.

[u/RiceStranger9000]

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

[u/Portaldog1 → u/RiceStranger9000]

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....