I think it'd be really interesting to figure out what YouTube's motives were and doing this. No doubt it had something to do with increasing profits somehow.
this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2025
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My thoughts were maybe this has something to do with somehow trying to interfere with SponsorBlock and Ad blockers. It might have gone wrong, or who knows what.
I think some department or team lead was told by higher ups that they needed to “implement AI” and are just trying to find places to shove it so they can tell the boss they hit the metrics.
The reason they turn stuff like this on by default without asking creators or users is probably because previous things that were implemented and made optional all got turned off and not used, meaning it didn’t help the department or team hit their metrics for usage of the systems.
My personal guess was to get people "used" to AI video. If you slap a smear over everything, it makes it look similar
Alternatively, it could have been an attempt to clean up video to make it look better. However, the implementation and where I've seen it seems to make little sense. It generally makes everything look worse, so I have no clue.