My thoughts were maybe this has something to do with somehow trying to interfere with SponsorBlock and Ad blockers. It might have gone wrong, or who knows what.
Quexotic@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
I think it’d be really interesting to figure out what YouTube’s motives were and doing this. No doubt it had something to do with increasing profits somehow.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
My personal guess was to get people “used” to AI video. If you slap a smear over everything, it makes it look similar
Alternatively, it could have been an attempt to clean up video to make it look better. However, the implementation and where I’ve seen it seems to make little sense. It generally makes everything look worse, so I have no clue.
megopie@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
I think some department or team lead was told by higher ups that they needed to “implement AI” and are just trying to find places to shove it so they can tell the boss they hit the metrics.
The reason they turn stuff like this on by default without asking creators or users is probably because previous things that were implemented and made optional all got turned off and not used.