"YouTube has no limit on amount of video that you can upload. This means that it is effectively infinite Cloud Storage if you were able to embed files into video"
@lupyuen storage you can’t trust it’s not storage. YouTube can and will delete your data once they cotton on. What you’ve got there is a really slow /dev/null
@AmpBenzScientist @tealeg @lupyuen
It works on qoto's peertube instance, too. Except that one has a limit. 😂
https://video.qoto.org/videos/watch/60b62289-3f4d-4f31-bb5d-496ddcdcde11
(It's a video that is scrolling through this thread. Get it? This thread is "embedded" in the video.)
@AmpBenzScientist @tealeg @lupyuen
So how are they going to stop it? Are they going delete every video that shows any text of graphics that represents "data".
@Pat @AmpBenzScientist @lupyuen pretty sure the answer to this is: train an ML system to recognise the hallmarks of data structured in the way required to make it extractable by these tools and automatically delete it. There’s probably some “arms race” that can happen there, but the degree to which you are outgunned depends entirely on how widely used this is.
I think if the data is human readable and mixed in with enough legitimate content, it would be difficult for a site to sort it out, even with ML algorithms.
Since there is no limit on the amount of video, the encoding/decoding scheme doesn't need to be storage efficient (but it would need to be temporally efficient to some practical degree).
