I don't even see how using AI to upscale the video could possibly save them any money.

It will still use the same amount of storage and bandwidth, actually more since the AI adds fake detail to lower quality source material, and now they have to spend an enormous amount of energy on the upscaling process.

They're also not increasing quality since most uploads are high quality and they're upscaling even the highest quality footage which is actually losing detail due to the shitty AI upscaling.

Given that it makes no sense from a quality, money, or energy perspective... you have to ask yourself, why exactly would they decide to do this?

I don't even see how using AI to upscale the video could possibly save them any money.

It will still use the same amount of storage and bandwidth, actually more since the AI adds fake detail to lower quality source material, and now they have to spent an enormous amount of energy on the upscaling process.

They're also not increasing quality since most uploads are high quality and they're upscaling even the highest quality footage which is actually losing detail due to the shitty AI upscaling.

Given that it makes no sense from a quality, money, or energy perspective... you have to ask yourself, why exactly would they decide to do this?