Get a pair of fast Anker USB-C charging cables for only $12 right now
I tend to buy a lot of USB cables because they “somehow” go missing… It’s definitely not my fault that I lend them to friends, stash them in bags and forget about them, or trust my kid to take care of them! Regardless, if you’re in the same boat and need some super-fast cables, here’s a great deal for you: get a pair of 100W Anker USB-C charging cables for just $11.99 on Amazon! That’s more than a fair price.
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These are 6-foot cables, by the way, so they’re long enough to plug in your phone and still comfortably doomscroll in bed. You can level up to the 10-foot variant and get two for $17.99, or downsize to 3-foot cables that cost $11.99 for a pair. (Hey, that’s the same price as these 6-footers!)
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Google secretly ‘enhanced’ YouTube Shorts videos with AI filters
YouTube is being overrun with AI slop. And it probably doesn’t help that YouTube itself, and owner Google, is where a lot of it is coming from. The latest questionable decision from the operator of the web’s de facto home for video? Using AI-powered tools to “enhance” videos, without telling anyone—including the creators who made said videos.
YouTube viewers and video producers like Rhett Shull have noticed a certain sheen and smoothness to some videos that wasn’t intentionally done by the original uploaders. This sort of filtering isn’t new—in fact, you’ve probably seen it over-applied to old movie clips uploaded to TikTok and YouTube shorts, giving them an unnaturally smooth motion and overly glossy look for things like human skin. But the subtle application of these filters is part of a test rolled out by YouTube itself, confirmed by Rene Ritchie, the platform’s head of editorial.
“We’re running an experiment on select YouTube Shorts that uses traditional machine learning technology to unblur, denoise, and improve clarity in videos during processing (similar to what a modern smartphone does when you record a video),” Ritchie said, replying to a question on social media. He started the post with “No GenAI, no upscaling,” perhaps in hopes of deflecting some of the backlash. Calling the tool “traditional machine learning” (what?) was probably meant to soften the blow as well.
As Ars Technica notes, this is indeed simply a wider application of similar filter tools that have been available for a while. The misapplication of the term “AI” to machine learning—and the intentional overselling of products while large language models become more prevalent in the public consciousness—is one of my personal bugaboos with Google and other marketers of this new technology.
But here’s the other shoe dropping: Google has no one to blame but itself if users instantly recoil at the thought of applying “AI” to videos, even if it’s little more than a new kind of filter. Users are increasingly wary of harder-to-spot generative AI slipping into text, images, music, and video, and Google/YouTube itself is one of the biggest vendors of this technology. Applying machine learning tech (again, possibly intentionally confused with “AI” tools) to videos suddenly becomes a point of contention for users who might not have had any problem with it a few years ago.
Not to mention the problem of applying these visual filters to videos without even informing the creators of those videos. Smoothing motion and evening out textures, particularly skin and other fine details, is a touchy subject at the best of times. Doing it without explicitly telling people it’s being done is a great way to lose the trust of the people making the content that YouTube relies upon.
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