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Youtube AI filter making it dangerous to watch for people with Epilepsy due to a bug (www.youtube.com)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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There is a bug in Youtube's AI filter that is causing some videos to flicker. The content creator have no idea that is happening and no way to opt out. If you have Epilepsy it is recommended that you watch out for these situations

Also as content creators dont know this may be happening, if you find these issues you should try to contact the respective content creator and let them know this is happening on your specific device. Again, its so random it may only happen on some devices

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[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ahahaha. A title cautioning not to watch YouTube with the description of the situation being... a YouTube video.

I'm avoiding YouTube so for others like me that want more info here's a BBC article on the filter itself (not the failure mode):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission

YouTube has secretly used artificial intelligence (AI) to tweak people's videos without letting them know or asking permission. Wrinkles in shirts seem more defined. Skin is sharper in some places and smoother in others. Pay close attention to ears, and you may notice them warp

And an Invidious link that lets you view the video:

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=2HY-nREvVu4

[–] black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah it'd be nice if people would start uploading to peertube....

[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, YouTube is really entrenched.

It's not that hard to set your peertube account to autoupload any YouTube channel but we only get away with the IP issues while peertube is small so it's not very sustainable.

I wish more of the creators that have ethical issues with the Trump administration's actions would acknowledge that Google is enabling and actively supporting (at least through larger than usual donations to) the Trump administration and then choose to upload anywhere else, even if they keep uploads in two places. I wonder if they lose more IP control on peertube, it seems unlikely given the alternative is Google. I've tried to message a few creators but I think the larger ones have either contracts of fond memories of the community that they grew from.

[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

To be fair, they also have little to gain now besides a slight feeling of doing something good but any alternative has to start from somewhere and need to get momentum.

[–] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What difference would invidious make if the video was modified on Source?

[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh, I don't have epilepsy so I'm not avoiding YouTube because of this filter, I'm avoiding YouTube because of the money Google keeps giving to Trump and because I noticed that my tech usage isn't very diversified and it was pretty pretty dominated by US companies (so if you imagine trade war negotiating leverage, I was giving the Trump administration more leverage). From that perspective, it removes ad revenue which is about all you can do with YouTube besides trying to convince creators to put their videos on multiple platforms (and it's questionable there is a good alternative platform)