YouTube secretly used artificial intelligence to modify creators’ videos without notification or consent, making subtle changes to their appearance[1]. According to Rick Beato, who runs a YouTube channel with over 5 million subscribers, he noticed strange alterations in his videos - his hair looked different and it appeared he was wearing makeup[1:1].
The AI modifications included sharpening skin in some areas while smoothing it in others, defining wrinkles in clothing more clearly, and causing subtle warping of features like ears[1:2]. YouTuber Rhett Shull, who investigated the changes, said “If I wanted this terrible over-sharpening I would have done it myself… I think that deeply misrepresents me and what I do and my voice on the internet”[1:3].
The unauthorized AI enhancements represent a concerning trend where artificial intelligence increasingly mediates reality before it reaches viewers, potentially eroding authentic connections between creators and their audiences[1:4].
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Literally nothing.
OP just stole the actual BBC article and shoved 20 ads into it.
The real article, which still has fuck-all to do with privacy but at least isn’t a malware hazard: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission
Wow, same banner and everything. The BBC article has more material, too. Thanks for spotting this.
I read only that. But it’s still an ai/tech news, not about privacy. It’s about wrongdoings of google, but now not against regular users but creators.
I should really gave up on the few .ml communities I still follow. Here just 2 users spams links, sometimes accidentally on topic, then there is some interesting conversations. There are better moderated privacy comms on lemmy: !privacy@lemmy.world !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com !privacy@lemmy.ca
Any community without a 24/7 mod team can get spammed.
This is just a spambot that takes high engagement posts from Reddit and reposts it everywhere it can find. Mod(s?) are probably asleep.
The community should be downvoting this crap (though, making vote manipulation bots is easy on Lemmy).
Yes I know, but there are other problems with .ml. But I’m not directly affected because I don’t comment about politics.
Most .ml communities have active alternatives on other instances, last time I checked this community was the only active on privacy topics, but it seems like others catching up
like that has ever worked for posts not relevant to a community.