Look out, AI video could soon flood YouTube Shorts

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Look out, AI video could soon flood

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Shorts

There are some unbelievably great, if abbreviated, films to watch on

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Shorts. A lot of them may soon be more literally unbelievable thanks to

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’s AI video creation model Veo 2.

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has released Veo 2 to the Shorts platform, augmenting

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’s Dream Screen AI tool and letting you produce AI-fueled flicks based on a text prompt.

Dream Screen has been using the original version of Veo to produce video backgrounds out of text prompts for Shorts since last year. Veo 2 ups the ante significantly by also making the characters and objects for the video along with the background. The upgrade also makes Dream Screen faster, better at understanding text prompts, and able to produce much more realistic results. The videos mimic real-world physics, and the characters move as realistically (or cartoonishly) as you might want.

You can try out the enhanced Dream Screen by opening the Shorts camera, selecting Green Screen, and typing in what you want to see. You can even add an AI-generated clip to an existing Short by tapping “Add,” then “Create,” then typing up the prompt. Veo 2 takes over, and within seconds, your giant Pomeranian ballerina is ready to perform.

creators can now generate high-quality video clips with #DreamScreenAI and Veo 2 in

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AI visions

The upgrade to Dream Screen raises many questions and possible concerns. Will AI-generated content flood

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Shorts, making it harder to tell what’s real and what’s not? What will creativity look like when the barriers to high-quality visuals disappear? Will we simply get stuck in a loop of AI-generated influencers making AI-generated content for an audience of AI-powered recommendation algorithms?

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does seem to get that hyper-realistic AI videos made in a few seconds might have some potential pitfalls. That’s why

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is attaching a SynthID watermark and a label indicating the AI origins of any Dream Screen-produced video. How well these transparency and tracking attempts perform remains to be seen, but at least there’s something.

The new feature is only coming to the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand for now, but others are in the pipeline, with more countries on the way. If you’re a

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content creator, this may be a huge boon, especially if the only thing standing between your video and viral fame is a slightly more perfect shot, better stock footage, or something truly outlandish. If you don’t have an idea, you can always toss around ideas with

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’s Brainstorm with Gemini tool.

HOW TO: Create Dream Screen Clips

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