Google Rolls Out Its Gemini AI-powered Video Presentation App

Google is generally rolling out its Gemini AI-powered Vids app that lets you create video presentations using a prompt. From a report: Some of Vids' key features include letting Gemini auto-insert stock footage for you, generating a script, and making AI voiceovers so you don't have to speak. Google advertises that the tool can help turn customer support articles into videos, make training videos, share company announcements, create meeting recaps, and more. Vids will be available by default for Workspace organizations with access, but Google notes possible usage limits may apply to features like "Help me create" and AI voiceovers starting in 2026.

Stock footage?

[CaptQuark]

I don't know where Google AI will get the stock footage but without knowing the source, I would be hesitant to allow a presentation to leave my organization.

Also, I have seen some funny fails from AI generated images. A set of funny fails can be found here: https://www.boredpanda.com/ai-... [boredpanda.com]

Give enough monkeys cameras and wait long enough..

[Rademir]

...and one of them will make a video presentation worthy of Shakespeare?

Wrong way round

[andrewbaldwin]

It would be better in reverse

One of the joys of being retired is never having to sit through another boring PowerPoint session again.

But for the benefit of those people who do have to suffer them, I'd like to see an AI development that "attends" a presentation and summarises the bloviating waffle (slides and voice) back down to a few key points.

Rather like

https://marketoonist.com/2023/... [marketoonist.com]

The trend appears to be unstoppable

[MpVpRb]

Instead of working on useful ideas, the AI companies continue to make crap generators.
In the past, it took a bit of effort to generate crap, now it will be faster and easier.
Welcome to the crapiverse, where we consume countless gigawatts of power to make increasingly annoying and useless crap.
I remember a tile, long ago, when I was optimistic about the future

But why?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

If you have the 'prompt' for the video and either lack the interest or the ability to actually add anything; why would you destroy something that at least has the virtue of being succinct by blowing it into a meandering video?

Text-to-speech, at least, has use cases for limited screens, drivers, the visually impaired, and the illiterate; but dragging stock video slurry into it?