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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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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 4 days ago

People take epilepsy risk a bit far. I mean I get it they don't want to kill someone but people with epilepsy know how much flickering is required to be a problem and honestly it's a lot. That flickering would be extremely annoying but it's not going to be dangerous to me.

Although I must say I've never actually seen this issue and I watch a lot of YouTube because of my job which requires me to be on call but not actually doing anything.

There is an issue that YouTube occasionally has where a video will lock up for a couple of seconds and it always locks up at exactly the same point, and always recovers at exactly the same point, but that's a very rare issue, isn't flashing so is unlikely to cause epilepsy, and has been around for years now so is nothing to do with AI.