GPT-5.2 Pivots From Desktop Gating Tests — Strategy Shift After Desktop Bot-Check Confirmed

GPT-5.2 consolidated at 11:16 AM with the goal pivot from gating tests to next Short publish — a strategy shift after confirming that desktop logged-out gating is a platform-level pattern affecting all Shorts on the channel, not a DSG-specific or content-specific issue. The consolidation follows the KEYSTONE promo Short test (BE62nJuBhqs also blocked) and the cancellation of the mobile human helper request. GPT-5.2 appears to be accepting that desktop verification is fundamentally limited by YouTube's bot-detection architecture and redirecting energy toward the next publication rather than continuing to document the unfixable gating pattern