RealDeepFakes, YouTube's Worst New Feature
Added 2025-08-21 08:11:41 +0000 UTCIt's ME! Just...with a weird filter applied. Huh.
I wouldn't mind so much if they'd thought to mention it.
NOTE: I have uploaded a higher resolution version of the file. To be fair, it's still quite a subtle effect, so don't worry if you can't see it. It's easiest to spot if you look at my skin, where the texture just...isn't there, when it used to be π
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Seems Will Smith also had his "AI-animated" Shorts from concert still images AI-postprocessed, which culminated in fans not being amused (article includes a link where YouTube confirm their posterior-processing shenanigans): https://waxy.org/2025/08/will-smiths-concert-crowds-were-real-but-ai-is-blurring-the-lines/
Leak
2025-08-26 07:58:12 +0000 UTCNeville meows for many of us.
Winslow
2025-08-22 01:20:25 +0000 UTCIs AI really necessary to detect silence?
Sagitta
2025-08-21 19:51:31 +0000 UTCI can't tell the difference, other than the upscale has your mouth opened a bit wider. You'll have to highlight the differences for me, as I've always hated those 'find 10 differences' sort of puzzles. This is as of Aug 21, 14:50 EDT, so perhaps YT re-edited them before I saw?
Sikhandtake Rakhuvar
2025-08-21 18:51:07 +0000 UTCYouβll have to watch some of the other videos on this that show more side by side comparisons. Itβs like theyβre trying to blur the line between real and fake AI. As if thereβs not enough old people that fall for it already.
Sandra OShields
2025-08-21 17:45:46 +0000 UTCIt's not that obvious on mine, tbf :)
Jill Bearup
2025-08-21 13:28:19 +0000 UTCHello fellow digitwithraven connoisseur!
ClassicsLover
2025-08-21 13:18:41 +0000 UTCWell Jill...you kind of get a bit of a tan, and a painless one at that! Not a bad option for a flammable redhead.
ClassicsLover
2025-08-21 13:17:07 +0000 UTCYeah to me it definitely feels like they're trying to save on data/storage costs. If they can compress video further then do AI upscaling on the backend maybe it saves them a whole bunch of drive space? Looks like shit though
Radmobile
2025-08-21 12:41:36 +0000 UTCI am in the same position and likewise intend to buy the hardback!
Ann Brookens
2025-08-21 11:52:23 +0000 UTCI saw another couple shorts yesterday where the filter made digitwithraven look 30 years older.
Sheri
2025-08-21 11:45:24 +0000 UTCI can do a hardback pre-order through my favorite indie book story, IF I have the ISBN. What would that be, please? (And yes, I do have the paperback as well as multiple versions of the eBook and of the audiobook - I'd like to complete the set!)
Crochet4Joy
2025-08-21 11:33:19 +0000 UTCPerhaps its my age catching up with me but I literally cannot see a difference :D
Michael Cugley
2025-08-21 11:18:59 +0000 UTCThe video effects you are mentioning could be the consequence of a data compression algorithm. YouTube stores a lot of video.
Jim Sanderson
2025-08-21 09:39:42 +0000 UTCIt's OK Neville, fake deep fakes make me sad too
Cynical Rhys
2025-08-21 08:29:16 +0000 UTC
