Google's New AI Video Tool Floods Internet With Real-Looking Clips (axios.com)
- Reference: 0177712823
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/23/2240214/googles-new-ai-video-tool-floods-internet-with-real-looking-clips
- Source link: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/23/google-ai-videos-veo-3
> 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.
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> In one viral example [3]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 [4]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.
[1] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/20/2042219/google-launches-veo-3-an-ai-video-generator-that-incorporates-audio
[2] https://www.axios.com/2025/05/23/google-ai-videos-veo-3
[3] https://x.com/HashemGhaili/status/1925332319604257203
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0VttaLy4sU
Colour me impressed. Movie studios dead (Score:2)
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 ac
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> If everybody can make a film by writing a prompt, then all you need is the script writer, really.
Remember the blink tag and Comic Sans? That's what you get when everybody can make a web page.
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:2)
I know the question that is in everybody's mind:
Will it do porn?
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.
Terrified or just lazy? (Score:4, 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 :)
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It's actually pretty underwhelming, couldn't even render "a video of Daenerys Targaryen [censored] with a [censored] the size of a [censored] while [censored] with a pair of [censored] all over her [censored] and a gerbil". Pretty hopeless if you ask me.
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> It's actually pretty underwhelming, couldn't even render "a video of Daenerys Targaryen [censored] with a [censored] the size of a [censored] while [censored] with a pair of [censored] all over her [censored] and a gerbil". Pretty hopeless if you ask me.
In fairness, gerbils are some of the most difficult critters to render faithfully!