Some PM in Youtube: “ yes let’s make it harder to tell real videos from AI to make people who don’t know better more susceptible and accepting of it”

So... the videos showing the difference between the AI-tainted youtube version and the supposedly untainted instagram version are hosted on... youtube?

What's the point of using videos like this if it's a risk to reputation just to use them?

I think AI-"upscaled" videos are as jarring to look at as a newly bought TV before frame smoothing has been disabled. Who seriously thinks this looks better, even if the original is a slightly grainy recording from the 90's?

I was recently sent a link to this recording of a David Bowie & Nine Inch Nails concert, and I got a serious uneasy feeling as if I was on a psychedelic and couldn't quite trust my perception, especially at the 2:00 mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yyx31HPgfs&list=RD7Yyx31HPg...

It turned out that the video was "AI-upscaled" from an original which is really blurry and sometimes has a low frame rate. These are artistic choices, and I think the original, despite being low resolution, captures the intended atmosphere much better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X6KF1IkkIc&list=RD1X6KF1Ikk...

We have pretty good cameras and lenses now. We don't need AI to "improve" the quality.

Two root comments (so far) are focusing on YouTube, but the article claims most of the AI was done by Will’s team, using AI to convert stills to video:

> The video features real performances and real audiences, but I believe they were manipulated on two levels:

1. Will Smith’s team generated several short AI image-to-video clips from professionally-shot audience photos

2. YouTube post-processed the resulting Shorts montage, making everything look so much worse

You can see the side-by-side [1] of the YouTube post-processing, and, while definitely altering the original, isn’t what’s causing most of the really bad AI artifacts.

Most of what YouTube appears to be doing is making it less blurry, sometimes successfully, and sometimes not. And, even with that, it is only done on Shorts.

[1] https://youtu.be/Bx5GzIsmEBI

What happens when AI gets trained on AI slop?

If there's code to stop AI from being trained on AI, I would like to have it from stopping me from seeing it.

I wonder if the fact that the original video was AI generated made the upscaling look worse than it would on a real video? Not that it can certainly be detected, but an actual video is likely different from an AI generated in ways that it seems like could lead astray their "computational photography" processing.

Open an company that sells t-shirts with "AI glitched" text on it so people can make every foto of this kind illegitimate.

Who the hell are going to Will Smith concerts in Europe? He’s been dead to me since the slap, I cannot imagine going to a concert of his with a clean conscience.

doesn't seem very blurry - don't generate video of a crowd? seems like an easy rule?

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