Youtube is slipping in unwanted AI editing in people’s uploads that become Youtube Shorts. 

YouTube Is Using AI to Alter Content (and not telling us) Rhett Shull Aug 14, 2025

Why? Why do they have to force this AI stuff in everywhere? Check your phone’s camera, there’s probably an AI editor on by default. I just wonder how that’s going to be used to claim your video can’t be used as evidence of anything at some point when you need to document something, for example when you move out of an apartment and leave it spotless, or before you rent a car with a dent in it.