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Re:YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January... by jimktrains2 on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @09:24AM (#18542471)
You don't need machine learning to do that. Even something like p-hash of every frame and if more than some threshold aren't the same, then it can't be replaced. I guess over the course of dozens of replacements you could replace the whole video, but you could always just store the p-hash of the whole original video, or even some sample of it, and always compare against that and not the most recent version.
Re:YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January... by neuronic on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @09:33AM (#18542533)
Absolutely, I was just saying that a lot of effort is already put into pattern analysis for videos so that licensing partners can be pleased. It's not like it's technically impossible. The real reason is that Google doesn't have the incentive because it simply doesn't care about its users' happiness. It merely wants to lock them in. What other service will people migrate to when they are annoyed by YouTube?

Right.