Google plans to add an AI feature next year inside of the YouTube app for creators to generate 6-second clips using the company’s Veo model.

Eli Collins, a vice president of product management at Google DeepMind, first demoed generative AI video tools for the company’s board of directors back in 2022. Despite the model’s slow speed, pricey cost to operate, and sometimes off-kilter outputs, he says it was an eye-opening moment for them to see fresh video clips generated from a random prompt.

Now, just a few years later, Google has announced plans for a tool inside of the YouTube app that will allow anyone to generate AI video clips, using the company’s Veo model, and directly post them as part of YouTube Shorts. “Looking forward to 2025, we’re going to let users create stand-alone video clips and shorts,” says Sarah Ali, a senior director of product management at YouTube. “They’re going to be able to generate six-second videos from an open text prompt.” Ali says the update could help creators hunting for footage to fill out a video or trying to envision something fantastical. She is adamant that the Veo AI tool is not meant to replace creativity, but augment it.

  • dmtalon@infosec.pubEnglish
    754·
    21 hours ago

    I’ll continue to not watch shorts, tik toks, reels or any other ADHD inducing short form content.

    • magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
      132·
      5 hours ago

      As a motherfucker with ADHD who keeps long form content running on the second monitor as god intended, you can eat my thicc-ass wagon.

    • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
      271·
      20 hours ago

      I set up a ublock rule to block shorts. Clutter and inane bullshit is all they are.

      • dmtalon@infosec.pubEnglish
        61·
        17 hours ago

        It’s annoying as hell. I can hide shorts on my shield TV YT app from desktop at 30 day increments. It sucks you can’t just turn them off

        • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
          101·
          19 hours ago

          He’d dismiss the sarcasm and make it genuine, “Yes, Timmy, we really are very impressed. Good job, Billy!”

        • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          15 hours ago

          At the risk of sounding like the kind of edgelord I was calling out initially: Who?

          No, seriously, that show was off the air before I was born. I only know what you’re talking about because of this cliche’d line, I’ve never seen the show or anything. Has there really not been anything in the 23 years since they bulldozed his neighborhood that is wholesome enough to guilt me with? Has society really stagnated that much? Is your sense of decorum only anchored by a largely forgotten children’s television show?