YouTube’s AI editing scandal reveals how reality can be manipulated without our consent
- Written by Timothy Koskie, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Media and Communications, University of Sydney

Disclosure, consent and platform power have become newly invigorated battlefields with the rise of AI.
The issue came to the fore recently with YouTube’s controversial decision to use AI-powered tools to “unblur, denoise and improve clarity” for some of the content uploaded to the platform. This was done...
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