YouTube Is Using AI to Alter Content (and not telling us)

[xocetaceans]

15. I understand. ...

I am not commenting on this topic to achieve any sort of enforced standard of realism in video. Filters are clearly fine for anyone who wants to use them.

What is happening with YouTube is something significantly different. The generally blurred effect that is present in the examples that you posted is not quite what is seen the Rhett Schull video or in the danasinspired videos that I noticed earlier. In both of those cases, what seems possibly to be an AI filter made certain regions of the video have sharp gradients in detail which made it appear as if AI was creating/constructing those regions of the images without respecting how detail is affected by depth of field, etc.

So, it is not a image quality issue, but instead an issue concerning the perception of the authenticity of a channel's video: i.e., is the video in question merely AI slop, or is the video in question an authentic video from the channel's proprietor?