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Comment by gherkinnn

8 months ago

https://www.theverge.com/youtube/765485/is-youtubes-shorts-e...

Today on The Verge, GenAI upscaling in YT shorts. Yes, AI is here to stay, but I do hope the icky parts go away soon.

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merelysounds  8 months ago

> GenAI upscaling in YT shorts

I cannot watch the linked video, but its description quotes “not generative AI”; is The Verge or someone else showing something different?

  • input_sh  8 months ago

    This is being unnecessarily pedantic. They're saying "yes we're doing post-processing, but that's not technically generative AI."

    Personally I couldn't care less about what they call it, I care that it makes the same video look more artifical on YouTube than they look elsewhere.

    > Hi! I'm a tech nerd and I try to be precise about the terminology I use

    > GenAI typically refers to technologies like transformers and large language models, which are relatively new

    > Upscaling typically refers to taking one resolution (like SD/480p) and making it look good at a higher resolution (like HD/1080p)

    > This isn't using GenAI or doing any upscaling

    > It's using the kind of machine learning you experience with computational photography on smartphones, for example, and it's not changing the resolution

    > And sincerely appreciate the feedback!

    • cnity  8 months ago

      I agree with The Verge here in that it is probably using a diffusion model somewhere, and that it is splitting hairs to say that it is not generative AI. The artifacts are very "diffusion".

  • michaelbuckbee  8 months ago

    There's no strict definition of these things, the quote is from YT and they're saying something like this isn't that _bad_ generative AI that people are worried about, this is just good old fashioned wholesome machine learning techniques.