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YouTube is secretly AI upscaling videos, making them look fake. If everything looks fake, then no one will be able to tell what is real. (www.youtube.com)

posted 294 days ago by FarOutThere 294 days ago by FarOutThere +89 / -0

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– Ricky_CIA 1 point 294 days ago +1 / -0

I've noticed that Youtube has been chewing up more CPU cycles on the same hardware recently than it used to. I wonder if Youtube is doing some fucky-wucky client-side shit to try and make videos still look good while reducing the bitrate and bandwidth cost on their end?

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