Credit: Joe Maring / Android AuthorityYouTube has been secretly upscaling Shorts by certain creators without their consent.Creators have not been offered any notification or given any option to disable upscaling.The team has clarified that it is using “traditional machine learning” to denoise and unblur videos.YouTube was founded 20 years ago and has gone through significant changes over this period, especially in video quality. More recently, however, it is experimenting with forced upscaling of certain videos, even without consent from creators.If you’ve recently encountered videos from your favorite YouTube creators looking like they were generated with AI, you may not be alone. Google has confirmed that this is part of an experiment where it is upscaling low-resolution videos with the help of machine learning. And the results haven’t landed well with users, just like its another recent attempt to determine users’ actual age using AI.