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I saw a cooking video on YT yesterday where the thumbnail was an AI image. They are literally filming the cooking of the actual food and have the result right there on video, and they made an AI pic of a fake version of it where the rice grains were all regularly shaped and distributed and looked like plastic.
The other day I uploaded a video of a recorded meeting, and I wondered what "suggest a thumbnail" did, so I clicked it. It's three AI-generated images based on the video. That's when I realized that all those YouTube thumbnails that look the same are made from that function.
Did they get rid of the function where you could choose your own frame out of a choice of three? If so, that's diabolical cause a random thumbnail sometimes sucks.
No, the choices to upload your own thumbnail or to select from a random three frames are still there. I was just curious to find out what "Suggest a thumbnail" was, since I figured the random ones were already essentially a "suggest a thumbnail". So I totality, the options are you can upload your own, three random frames, three gen-AI images.
Same thing with YouTube, they could just take a clip from the video if they really don't know how to make a thumbnail.