I know it’s a little early… but Deadpool waited about a year to do that! xD
So… it’s almost that time of the year again :D
Here we go again xD
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I know it’s a little early… but Deadpool waited about a year to do that! xD
So… it’s almost that time of the year again :D
Here we go again xD
Merry Crisis c:
I think it’s not hard to guess who did who and why :p
just dragging old posts up because hehe
From the YouTube Boycott group. Stay off YT as much as possible for a while longer, folks.
Did you guys hear that the UK government is now working on passing a version of "client side scanning"? It would completely get rid of end-to-end encryption by giving AI access to your entire device. You can't opt out of it, you can't consent to it, you no longer have any privacy.
The AI would scan all of the content of your phone continuously and report the data to the companies, it would also report anything it deems offensive or illegal to the police and send the all of your information. A blind person can see the problems with this, especially given how AI policing systems regularly identify POC as more likely to commit crimes.
sources??? i havent heard anythint about this but it sounds incredibly dystopian jfc
I incorrectly stated the UK instead of the EU.
These are where I got my info from, I always encourage people doing their own research as well. You'll need to look up "EU Chat Control" or just "Chat Control" to find it. The most recent article I could find was from July of this year and then edited in August
Chat Control is back on the lawmakers' table
there is still time. there is still time. until your bones are in the fucking ground there is still time.
and then after that is THE SKELETON WAR
YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without telling users or asking permission. As AI quietly mediates our world, what happens to our sha
"It turns out, he wasn't. In recent months, YouTube has secretly used artificial intelligence (AI) to tweak people's videos without letting them know or asking permission. Wrinkles in shirts seem more defined. Skin is sharper in some places and smoother in others. Pay close attention to ears, and you may notice them warp. These changes are small, barely visible without a side-by-side comparison. Yet some disturbed YouTubers say it gives their content a subtle and unwelcome AI-generated feeling.
There's a larger trend at play. A growing share of reality is pre-processed by AI before it reaches us. Eventually, the question won't be whether you can tell the difference, but whether it's eroding our ties to the world around us."
1. What happened YouTube admitted it’s been running AI processing on some Shorts — sharpening, denoising, smoothing — without asking permission. Creators noticed their own faces looked subtly “off,” like they were wearing AI makeup. And the altered version is what the audience sees.
2. Why this crosses a line
Ownership: Your video is your work. Your face is your image. When YouTube silently rewrites it, they are asserting that they—not you—own how you appear on their platform.
Trust: Creators like Rick Beato and Rhett Shull rely on authenticity. If the platform itself tampers with that, it erodes the bond between creator and audience.
Consent: On your phone, you can toggle filters. On YouTube, you aren’t asked. That’s the difference between a tool you control and a platform that controls you.
Reality creep: These changes seem tiny, but they normalize the idea that media is always pre-processed. Once you accept that, the very expectation of “realness” starts to vanish.
3. Why YouTube thinks they can do this
Most people won’t notice.
Those who do notice won’t leave; there’s no real competition at YouTube’s scale.
With bigger global crises, this feels too trivial to fight. They know apathy and exhaustion keep most people quiet.
4. The deeper problem This isn’t about whether a shirt wrinkle looks sharper. It’s about power. YouTube doesn’t see itself as a neutral distributor of your work. It sees itself as the author of the experience, with full rights to “optimize” your content however it likes. Creators are just raw material. That’s why they didn’t ask: asking implies you could say no.
5. What can be done
Raise awareness. The only reason this surfaced was because creators with big audiences noticed. Keep amplifying it.
Demand control. A mandatory opt-out is the minimum. YouTube must not alter identity without consent.
Diversify. Explore Nebula, PeerTube, even Patreon-hosted video. Every bit of independence reduces monopoly leverage.
Frame the stakes. This isn’t “just a filter.” It’s a question of who owns your image, your work, your voice. If we concede that to the platform, we’ll lose the last trace of authenticity online.
6. The bottom line Google once said “Don’t be evil.” Now the motto is closer to “Don’t get caught.” They’re not testing video quality — they’re testing how much tampering people will tolerate before they resist. And if there’s no resistance, the platform’s ownership over your reality becomes the default.
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Censorship by payment processors has possibly gotten worse if this is true. Given the crazy shit Mastercard & Visa has done I wont rule it out.
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In the states you can go to Walmart and buy a shotgun using your Mastercard, but a game could be censored for being LGBTQ themed.
The YouTube Blockout is still happening
Even if this is your first time hearing about it, you can still show your disapproval of the new policy by joining the blockout/boycott.
How?
Stop using YouTube. The best way to show our disapproval is by completely ignoring YouTube until they roll back this decision. There are lots of alternatives, and we are working on a masterlist. If you absolutely have to use YouTube in some capacity, I highly recommend using a front-end client like FreeTube. It gives you more privacy and doesn't have ads, but the best option is still to boycott YT entirely.
Use Google products as little as possible. I have switched over to Firefox, and there are lots of alternatives for lots of Google products. If anyone's interested in a specific list, I'll share what I find.
Sign this petition:
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
If you're interested, there's a Discord server for this, too, started by @gentleman-velvet. Look at their blog for more info about that.
But why are we doing this? Why should you care?
I'll let YouTube themselves explain it for me.
[Alt: A screenshot of the YouTube policies page that reads: "For all U.S. accounts, YouTube employs a dual approach by using self-declared age as well as the application of an age estimation model that uses machine learning to determine whether a user is over or under 18. Regardless of the birthday in the account, this technology enables us to deliver age-appropriate product experiences and protections, treating teens as teens and adults as adults. How it works: We use AI to interpret a variety of existing signals that help us to determine whether a user is over or under 18. These signals include the types of videos a user is searching for, the categories of videos they have watched, or the longevity of the account. When we identify a teen user, we’ll automatically apply our safeguards, including: -Disabling personalized advertising and restricting age-sensitive ad categories -Turning on digital wellbeing tools -Adding safeguards to recommendations, including limiting repetitive views of some kinds of content. Users have the option to verify that they are 18 or over by using a credit card or a government ID. We only allow users who have been inferred or verified as over 18 to view age-restricted content that may be inappropriate for younger users.]
Read that all the way through. According to YouTube, if their AI thinks you watch childish content, regardless of the birthdate you associated with your account, your account could be restricted until you provide either a government-issued photo ID or a credit card to verify your age. This is what they themselves are saying.
Personally, I don't want a private company to have images of my ID or my credit card. I feel that that is an invasion of my privacy. I fear what might happen in the case of a data breach. And Google has fairly frequent data breaches. Just search (with any other search engine) "google data breach recent" and see for yourself.
And consider adults who don't have either a government-issued photo ID or a credit card. What then? It would appear from the policies described on YouTube's website that they are just out of luck in that instance.
This could very well affect animation on YouTube. It could affect gameplay videos. It could affect anything and everything that their AI might deem "childish."
YOU SHOULD CARE
The boycott is working, y'all. YouTube is panicking, trying to get people to buy Premium. They're advertising themselves on other platorms, when YT used to be the place to advertise. They're trying to bribe people with discount codes.
IT IS WORKING
Keep fighting the good fight
If you don't know about the YT boycott, I summarized it here
From Boycott YouTube on Discord
HAPPY ONE WEEK ANNIVERSARY
Stay strong, everyone
READ THIS IF YOU PLAN TO BOYCOTT YOUTUBE LONG-TERM
get an invidious account. it is an alternative front-end to youtube, allowing you to make an account, subscribe to channels, make playlists, and all the other things you use youtube for; all without giving the company a single cent. swearing off youtube long-term is a tall ask, so you can use this to still follow the creators you want to keep up with while continuing the youtube boycott. it has a built-in adblock and anti-tracker, meaning that you can really keep fucking them over.
it doesnt interact with the API at all, it scrapes the metadata to make sure they get as little as possible.
hey so youtube is doing even worse shit
i accidentally opened up a youtube link (i am still actively boycotting and avoiding yt, just clicked on a link without thinking) and i see this button
and apparently it's. an option to ask questions about the contents of the video to their built-in AI???
i figure some of these questions are to further train the AI to better be able to analyze video content and relay "accurate" summaries. I feel like I don't even need to explain how dangerous it is to allow people the option to be spoonfed media comprehension from an AI. we have already seen in the news and online how AI consistently gives incorrect or otherwise misleading information that can cause deluded thinking and even can be dangerous, but it also literally limits human brain function.
this is terrifying. convenience should not ever triumph over truth.
To any US citizen who is against KOSA but unsure of what to do: these people will send a letter on your behalf and will also provide instructions on what to say in a call to your lawmakers to voice disapproval of the bill. We've been able to at least push this bill back to the drawing board before and we can do it again. https://www.stopkosa.com/