No, I’m not defending google. I’m saying this news does not fit this community, as it’s not about privacy. You can do bad, evil, illegal things a lot other ways, not just against privacy, I think this is mostly against consent and copyright.

I love lemmy because you have different communities for different topics. I hate users who post randomly to unrelated communities. It messes up my ocd.

Remuxing or resizing a video is also a violation? Because yt does that to all videos. A 4k nature movie looks different in 360p. From a technological point of view the 2 process (ai sharpening and changing to a resolution where new pixels have to be calculated via some filter) is not that different, an algorithm modifies the picture and calculates new pixels. Would you ban upscaling in televisions, because they violate the authentic connection between the the artist and the audiance? Hell, colorized photographs destroy the remaining privacy of photographers who died years ago.

The point is you rarely see a video as it was created by someone, so your generalization is not applicable to this case. And it’s still not about privacy, you just redifined the meaning of copyright and some kind of indentity theft. Which shouldn’t happen, but still a different topic.

But it’s a public video. They deliberately uploaded to make it public. Whose privacy was at stake in this story?

I’m not familiar with youtube TOS, but knowing google has a lot of lawyers I suspect there is a section where you allow them to do such experiments on your videos. The creators uploaded the videos there, they could choose not to upload. Who spied on who in this story?

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

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

What this news has to do with privacy?