Google's New AI Video Tool Floods Internet With Real-Looking Clips (axios.com) 34
Google's new AI video tool, Veo 3, is being used to create hyperrealistic videos that are now flooding the internet, terrifying viewers "with a sense that real and fake have become hopelessly blurred," reports Axios. From the report: Unlike OpenAI's video generator Sora, released more widely last December, Google DeepMind's Veo 3 can include dialogue, soundtracks and sound effects. The model excels at following complex prompts and translating detailed descriptions into realistic videos. The AI engine abides by real-world physics, offers accurate lip-syncing, rarely breaks continuity and generates people with lifelike human features, including five fingers per hand.
According to examples shared by Google and from users online, the telltale signs of synthetic content are mostly absent.
In one viral example posted on X, filmmaker and molecular biologist Hashem Al-Ghaili shows a series of short films of AI-generated actors railing against their AI creators and prompts. Special effects technology, video-editing apps and camera tech advances have been changing Hollywood for many decades, but artificially generated films pose a novel challenge to human creators. In a promo video for Flow, Google's new video tool that includes Veo 3, filmmakers say the AI engine gives them a new sense of freedom with a hint of eerie autonomy. "It feels like it's almost building upon itself," filmmaker Dave Clark says.
In one viral example posted on X, filmmaker and molecular biologist Hashem Al-Ghaili shows a series of short films of AI-generated actors railing against their AI creators and prompts. Special effects technology, video-editing apps and camera tech advances have been changing Hollywood for many decades, but artificially generated films pose a novel challenge to human creators. In a promo video for Flow, Google's new video tool that includes Veo 3, filmmakers say the AI engine gives them a new sense of freedom with a hint of eerie autonomy. "It feels like it's almost building upon itself," filmmaker Dave Clark says.
Terrified or just lazy? (Score:3, Interesting)
terrifying viewers "with a sense that real and fake have become hopelessly blurred,"
Thus far this is true only if you limit your sources of "information" and "knowledge" to youtube, tiktok and your favorite billionaire-owned infotainment channel; and your manner of receiving news to "consuming", that is swallowing it instead of using your head to put two and two together. You survived email phishing, you ought to survive the fake videos as well. Of course, it will be easier if you also vote out the billionaire influence so that they cannot weasel out of selling you lies, but that's entirely up to you, and it is a difficult job.
Now, once that neuralink chip is fitted to you, all bets are off, but until then you still have a chance.
If you choose to accept it :)
Re:Terrified or just lazy? (Score:5, Funny)
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In fairness, gerbils are some of the most difficult critters to render faithfully!
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this is true only if you limit your sources of "information" and "knowledge" to youtube
I don't but tens of millions do! The terrifying part is not about you and me, it's what happens when bad actors use this tool to dupe individuals, or the the masses.
Re: Terrified or just lazy? (Score:1)
Are you just being lazy, since you have the same tool available to educate the ignorant masses?
Colour me impressed. Movie studios dead (Score:3, Insightful)
Uau, That's a long trip from Final Fantasy! I suppose it's a matter of time till all movie studios are dead, or at least so changed as the newspapers with the advent of the Internet. It's the same situation, democratization of publishing, If everybody can make a film by writing a prompt, then all you need is the script writer, really. Well, and a film editor, probably.
On the plus side, perhaps we'll see some original content now. On the minus side, I guess the 2030's Oscars ceremony will sport no glamour actresses on the red carpet, but geeks holding laptops. Instead of "who's you dress from?" (Valentino) you'll have "who's your bot from?" (OpenAI's "Filminator" with some continuity tweaks from a recent startup, you wouldn't know it)
I wonder if you could prompt it just "Take 'A Tale of Two Cities' and make a film from it"., and what would happen.
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Remember the blink tag and Comic Sans? That's what you get when everybody can make a web page.
Re: Colour me impressed. Movie studios dead (Score:1)
Can AI give me a holodeck where I can recreate 1900s Storyville in New Orleans and never leave?
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I wonder if you could prompt it just "Take 'A Tale of Two Cities' and make a film from it"., and what would happen.
This is what I want.
In addition to the obvious candidates, I like all sorts of books that have never been dramatized; I would love to just generate a movie or series from them.
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Even if you could make a good movie with prompts only (and remember an image is worth a thousand words), you still need someone to orchestrate it. A movie consists of thousands of scenes and to get your vision into a movie you can't just write "Create a new simpsons episode" but you need to write down every detail. It's the dilemma programmers know from their managers expressing a feature request in two sentences and leaving them guess what the manager may have in mind, only that now the creator is the one
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Even if you could make a good movie with prompts only (and remember an image is worth a thousand words), you still need someone to orchestrate it. A movie consists of thousands of scenes and to get your vision into a movie you can't just write "Create a new simpsons episode" but you need to write down every detail. It's the dilemma programmers know from their managers expressing a feature request in two sentences and leaving them guess what the manager may have in mind, only that now the creator is the one with the two sentences and disappointed by the AI not being able to read their mind to get the actual vision from it.
Maybe.
LLMs can already write multi chapter stories. Not good ones, in my experiments, but hey ...
So there will probably be a range between fully scripted movies, and those generated from merely ideas.
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I believe we already have quite good AI and will see much better. But I don't believe in creativity without control.
Fix the random seed and the system is deterministic. Do not fix it and ... your LLM written story depends only on the random seed.
Can we call this creative? I don't think so. The seed is merely selecting one of the stories the LLM is able to write. One could argue that a long int can select from many many stories, but in practice you'll see the same over and over again.
So how do you make the L
Great, more AI crap (Score:3)
These companies, in their endless greed and strive for dominance, are nothing but a problem now.
Re: Great, more AI crap (Score:1)
So your real problem is with humans? Why not join my Nonviolent Antinatalist cult and use words and your own example alone to show ppl why they should not breed?
The real question (Score:4, Funny)
I know the question that is in everybody's mind:
Will it do porn?
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Depends on how much you're willing to pay. I'm guessing the price for that license will be set at "less than a real actor, but not much less."
Re: The AI revolution - Say "goodbye" to talented: (Score:1)
If I can have AI recreate Louis Armstrong, why do I need any other musician?
Geoblocked outside the US (Score:2)
Thank you Google, for showing the rest of the world (non-US) that we are just second class consumers by locking us out of yet another new Google service. And they still wonder why people distrust and don't like them. Impressive, but I'd take my generative video business elsewhere.
Realistic-looking? (Score:1)
You make it sound negative (Score:3, Insightful)
Since when is it negative, when a lot of users are able to express their creativity.
In before: They are not making it themselves! They have a rather easy way to express their vision, it doesn't matter much if they picked up a camera or not. The point to art is to make the artist's vision into something other people can see. AI generators allow for this. Some people may use them with a simple prompt and get random output, but others work a lot on the result using the provided tools to make it fit their artistic vision.
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Since when is it negative
When "users" are scammers, and they "express their creativity" by scamming.
Scamming grandma actually results in much more cash than drawing her as a Studio Ghibli character. So that is what will tend to happen with it.
Re: You make it sound negative (Score:1)
Should we have banned the telephone and internet because of fraudsters?
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Isn't that a problem with the user instead of with the general purpose tool?
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"Since when is it negative, when a lot of users are able to express their creativity."
I'm an artist/musician/tech nerd... I'll take a shot at that.
Since social media. You can express your creativity any time you want. I sit down an bang out some tunes on a piano every day. I don't have to publish it to express my creativity. In fact, I specifically don't publish anymore because my original creative material will immediately be scraped and repurposed for co
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Mood this up. Exactly right.
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"Not trying to pick a fight. You have a good question"
I'm happy to have a good discussion and I know there are some counterpoints to the OP.
I still currently see a net positive but I, for example, happily agree that there is much low-quality content online now as it is easier to generate (low-quality) content than before. But the nuanced view on this is, that it is not a problem with people being able to create content, but a problem with sites not being able to sort by quality. More content is not bad, not
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Critical thought is quite rare online, but its good to see some out there! Cheers.
Re: You make it sound negative (Score:1)
"Does the internet have any purpose or value to YOU, at the point where you are only interacting with electronic agents?"
What if human agents just ban me, so AI is all I get? What if no human wants to play Dixieland jazz with me so AI looks like my savior?
Dead internet theory (Score:2)
Looking more real every day
ummm (Score:2)