schiffern 32 minutes ago

  "The same pixel-filled rectangle could contain the work of someone who spent time and energy and had the courage to perform publicly, or of someone who sits in bed typing prompts and splicing clips in order to make a few bucks."
One can imagine nearly the same sentence being written 100+ years ago about the honest hard-working landscape painters we all know and love, vs the newfangled corner-cutting opportunists with their (questionably moral) "photography."

Fraud is bad, and people should know what they're consuming. Artists should control what they're producing, as in this case involving Youtube. That said, the underlying moral panic betrayed by the quoted sentence is completely over-the-top.

Full disclosure: I haven't created any AI art, nor do I know anyone who does.

rhdunn 8 hours ago

They've also introduced automatic dubbing for foreign language videos. While this can be useful, I'd prefer it to be opt-in like how you can select the language for subtitles.

  • lm28469 4 hours ago

    The best part is that the TTS is somehow worse than what elevenlab had 3 years ago

explodes 8 hours ago

Hmm. I've been watching some old shows taken from VHS and some of them look like cursed AI upscale. One series was titled as AI upscale, and another wasn't. Both looked a bit rough. Wonder if this is why.

karmakaze 2 hours ago

I hate it. Similar to "Remastered" on Spotify that makes everything sound the same, which I hate far more.