Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoYouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend realitywww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square77linkfedilinkarrow-up1418arrow-down127cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ziptechnology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1391arrow-down1external-linkYouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend realitywww.bbc.comDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square77linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ziptechnology@lemmy.ml
minus-squareno banana@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up75arrow-down1·5 months agoI mean yeah, it doesn’t seem entirely unreasonable. But if it actually was reasonable, wouldn’t they just inform the uploader?
minus-squareT156@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down2·5 months agoOr give an option to toggle. Surely letting people turn it off would save them even more resources, if they don’t have to bother with upscaling the video in the first place.
minus-square𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·5 months agoIt likely costs them less to upscale than it does to store and serve a full sized video, so they’re not giving the uploader the choice.
minus-squareexu@feditown.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 months agoStorage is very cheap. This only makes sense if they actually do the upscaling client side
I mean yeah, it doesn’t seem entirely unreasonable. But if it actually was reasonable, wouldn’t they just inform the uploader?
Or give an option to toggle. Surely letting people turn it off would save them even more resources, if they don’t have to bother with upscaling the video in the first place.
It likely costs them less to upscale than it does to store and serve a full sized video, so they’re not giving the uploader the choice.
Storage is very cheap. This only makes sense if they actually do the upscaling client side