Comment by advisedwang

4 years ago

Seems like a great way to get your account closed for abuse!

You'd be surprised how much YouTube lets you upload.

I've been uploading 2-3 hours of content a day every day for the past few years. On the same account too.

I have fewer than 10 subscribers lol.

  • Lucky you. I just posted my first two videos from a conference that were banned within a day for violating "Community Guidelines" without appeal.

  • How MUCH - yes - as long as it's videos, and it's not violating copyright, you're probably not violating any Terms of Service.

    But I guarantee there is some clause in the ToS that this project violates.

  • What kind of content do you upload? (Should "content" be in air quotes? :P)

    • Lol yeah.

      It's just recordings of myself when I'm doing deep work. I use OBS to stream my computer screen and a video recording of myself (mostly me muttering to myself).

      It helps me avoid getting distracted (I feel like I'm being watched lol) and it's also interested to check back if I want to see what I was working on 3 months ago.

      All the videos are unlisted or private.

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You could make it much harder to detect by synthesizing a unique video with a DNN and hiding the data using traditional stenography techniques.

  • I think that video compression might make this not a viable technique. Artifacts would destroy the hidden data, right?

    • Compression will limit the bandwidth of a given frame but you can work around it.

      Some forms of DRM are already essentially this, compression - and even crappy camera recording from a theater - resistant DRM that is essentially stegonagraphy (you can't visually tell its there) exist.

      EDIT: "compression resistant watermark" is a good search phrase if anyone is curious

    • Unless you tuned the NN on the files you get back from YouTube, so that it learns to encode the data in a way that is always recoverable despite the artifacts.

    • That is what redundancy and error correcting codes are for. It will reduce your data density, but I am sure you can find parameters that preserve the data.

Then the whole HN crowd would have enough outrage materials for weeks. Seems like a win-win situation to me.

If it becomes prevalent, I think YouTube would do something like slightly randomize the compression in their videos to dissuade this kind of use.

  • isn't the point here that the sub-pixels being produced are so large that it would take a tremendous amount of artifacts to reduce them to an unreadable state?

    in other words; if YTs compression was affecting it so badly that it prevented the data from being re-read, wouldn't that compression scheme render normal video-watching impossible?