Google's New AI Video Tool Floods Internet With Real-Looking Clips (axios.com) 18
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:4, 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.
Colour me impressed. Movie studios dead (Score:4, 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.
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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
Great, more AI crap (Score:2)
These companies, in their endless greed and strive for dominance, are nothing but a problem now.
The real question (Score:3)
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."
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)
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.