Probably doing it because they think people want higher quality videos, but you're right it'll cost them a lot of money.
The 4k version of OP video is using 3.5 GiB. Maybe ten copies with redundancy and in different datacenters, that's maybe $0.30 in hard drive space. That's going to add up if they upscale lots of their 1080p to 4k. Also electricity and upscale AI isn't free, and they'll be redoing this over and over as the upscale models improve.
It's probably not actually a nefarious master plan to make people doubt everything. They're just looking at micro metric A/B testing saying "which vid do you prefer" and the mechanical turks they ask say the upscale because less blurry.
...but still hilarious that in the longer term they're undermining themselves because nobody asked, "yeah but should we do this?"
Been using add-on for a long time to put youtube in the highest quality even when playing in a tiny window, just so it would cost them that fraction of a cent in data/hosting but also so they'd think people cared more about high rez.
I've been calling for people to do this for a decade now even back on the reddits so maybe enough people did this that Goog has been tricked into spending actual money and energy now undermining their own credibility with fake high quality.
/nelsonlaugh
Took me a while to realize what he was even trying to show.
He says spot the difference between two videos so I thought there would be, you know, two videos. I'm like ok a guy talking, switches to guy talking again, looks the same, I don't see a difference??
It's one video that switches from youtube/insta version every few seconds. On his guitar video he's saying look at the pickups and shirt wrinkles so I'm not looking at the peripheral where it says youtube or insta.
Basically it's switching between one that is consistently blurry and one that is inconsistently sharp (strings), blurry (shirt arm wrinkles), and smooth (face without wrinkles).
Guy apparently isn't skilled at video editing enough to do a side-by-side like anyone who's not a fucking moron would have done.
{this trailer was woke bs} He's a creator who once united the fandom {because lesbian space witches DEI hires} So, how did he become one of the most divisive and controversial figures in the entire community? {they hate you}
Way to answer your own question.
Apparently this was supposed to be a serious video not a parody. Trash video.
Even casual Team Fortress 2 sucks because bots are everywhere, and TF2 was the perfect casual FPS.
The basic bot problem is impossible human reaction times. A bot being hard or needing teamwork to beat is one thing, but in these games bots are impossible to beat. Power has to be balanced against reaction time.
Put a one second sniper shot time with laser-in-your-eye graphic on whoever is near the aim and then you've got a chance. When scouts are running around so fast humans can't target them then their weapons should miss most of the time and do less damage.
The games need more rock/paper/scissors strategy and less execution. Like if there's slow respawn time the team that has a medic should have a big advantage. That kind of thing.
It's from pre-Internet era so there's no real "correct" version, it spread by word of mouth.
The more elaborate version includes the father being killed, an ambulance, immediate surgery to play on your (rightful) bias that an emergency surgeon is a man.
It doesn't have "not his father" and is carefully written to avoid pronouns to avoid putting you on that it's about gender.
Of course being operated on in the emergency room by a woman should be unthinkable - who tf would want that.
The riddle is about the doctor dying in a car accident that injures the child, then the doctor at hospital can't operate because it's his child, how can that be? Because the doctor is the mother.
The 'AI' sees "doctor" "child" "accident" and "?" and thinks it's the riddle. This turtle-on-a-post trap for the AI tricks it into disparaging the mother for no reason.
A person might have said they don't know why, or maybe the doctor warned the child not to be reckless, or other reasonable answer.
Lip-Bu Tan was complicit in illegally giving China technology to make their own CPU/GPU chips (while at Cadence Design Systems in the 2010s), whereas these nVidia chips are commodities that China is paying dearly for (apparently from prices in the video, a 3x markup) and are delaying the development of China's own chips and software.
Apples and oranges.
The big companies like Google and Facebook already are making or have their own AI hardware in their datacenters. China can too but it's better if they pay extra for our chips instead of us forcing them to make their own.
OP says you can't listen to the song, but apparently meant you can't listen to the uncensored song.
Example Youtube @ 1:14 where "kike me" has static over it added by the record label.
That's what's called a tempest in a teapot. They've migrated hordes of savages into London and have rape gangs and they have you upset over nothing being censored if you prove you are of age.
These are the kinds of things that are the control. This is the machine in action.
We're living in a fusion reactor of propaganda. Video guy says they can't contain human nature, but with enough technology and science anything can be contained.
The dynasties of China maintained control for hundreds of years using primitive tools like a difficult to learn written language. Modern individualized propaganda can shift people from believing the Earth will burn from pollution to burning electric cars in a few months.
The tools and science for propaganda and control are unprecedented in history so "well it never worked before" isn't a reasonable argument.
It wasn't even that, he made up a rule that if they offered to "supersize" his meal then he had to do it. He was eating like 4000+ calories a day which is what his health problems came from (at that time).
The movie even shows a guy who was eating just a Quarter Pounder a day for decades and was healthy.
Moral of the movie is don't eat waaay too many calories every day for months on end.
In most real-world fights the person who wins is the one who is craziest.
If you're actually willing to stab somebody in the heart or blind them you're likely to win. Even man vs woman, if she gets the jump on him or attacks while he's asleep.
So Theimpossible1 has the clear advantage. Just tell him Telia is F2M and set him loose.
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excessively uses lists and bullet points
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lots of verbose wordage
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hallucinates
Ultimately in an open forum like this you're not going to know if you're talking to a bot or not. Even if you could prove posters are human and typed it themselves, somebody could just consult a bot for a compelling counterargument and then rewrite it in their own style and words.
What matters is are they making more sense than you are? Are they interesting and relevant?
"Forum sliding" isn't bad if it's because they're making better points and more sense. Sliding it toward being more sensible, rational, and interesting... oh no, the horror!
People's intelligence is always underrated in politics. Voters are not that dumb.
Obviously something more powerful that Trump is preventing the Epstein release. Bongino is an egotist and Kash an ideologue and they would never make the "he killed himself, he killed himself" hostage video for Trump at their own expense. People know this.
The Epstein handling is just an outlet for frustrations, not the frustration itself. It's like in National Treasure (2004) "Someone's got to go to prison, Ben".
Apparently the slip is from the youngest generation disappointed that Trump isn't going hard enough; there's never been a President that's gone this hard since like maybe Andrew Jackson.
I don't buy the Epstein specifically as the decline - people hoped, but nobody actually believed it would get released anyway. But Pam Bondi not charging anybody for any crime is the main reason.
It's not just the phones, something happened to spell-check in browsers too.
I've seen Chrome-based browsers not able to correct one character wrong in a twelve character long word, not even needing to add or remove a character just fix one vowel. A 1980s spell checker using 20k of memory was better than what we have today.
I haven't looked into why but I'd guess when they 'upgraded' it for unicode and non-English languages the programmers assigned to it were idiots. Eventually they'll dumb it down even more and use a hundred billion parameter LLM to do it as well as Levenshtein and a Trie.
edit: Yep. Chrome and Firefox now use Hunspell and "Hunspell [is] designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding ... Unicode UTF-8-encoded". Non-CS degree lead programmer on it brags about non-standard hyphenation support /facepalm
Putin: "For centuries, they’ve been used to stuffing their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money. But they must understand that the vampires’ ball is coming to an end".
I don't speak Russia but Vampir was audible so I think that's a literal translation.
What a great description.