Is it a conspiracy? For months, YouTubers have been quietly griping that something looked off in their recent video uploads. Following a deeper analysis by a popular music channel, Google has now confirmed that it has been testing a feature that uses AI to artificially enhance videos. The company claims this is part of its effort to “provide the best video quality,” but it’s odd that it began doing so without notifying creators or offering any way to opt out of the experiment.
Fucking hell all the dispotian AI taking over ruling the world shit and no one predicted the much more boring version: a company unleashing a half-assed AI to make their stupid services more profitable and steal all your data and rights to make it happen.
That’s a more boring version of the larger thing happening: ruling class decided it’s YOLO time, screw what the middle and lower class think. Buy a dictator, merge the military with the prisons, take over whatever you can laws and legacy be damned.
America is at the ‘looting the coffers’ stage of imperial collapse