YouTube added a brand new synthetic intelligence (AI) function for the creators on the platform on Thursday. The video streaming platform introduced that Google’s Veo 2 AI mannequin is being built-in with the Dream Screen function. The new video technology mannequin additionally provides the aptitude for customers to generate standalone AI-generated movies. The firm says the device can be utilized so as to add footage that isn’t simply obtainable or to deliver an creativeness to actuality. Notably, Dream Screen would earlier solely permit creators so as to add video backgrounds utilizing AI.
YouTube Shorts Now Allows Users to Generate AI Videos
In a weblog submit, the video-streaming large highlighted that it’s integrating Google DeepMind’s newest video technology mannequin Veo 2 with Dream Screen. Using this, customers can generate standalone movies for use within the Shorts. Notably, YouTube Shorts is the short-format vertical scrolling video interface the corporate launched in 2020.
The firm mentioned that the function is aimed toward aiding creators on the platform with producing footage that isn’t simple to search out. The device is a text-to-video generator, so customers can merely describe what they’re in search of and the Veo 2 AI mannequin will generate it.
Veo 2, the newest video technology mannequin, was launched in December 2024 because the successor of the Veo AI mannequin. At the time of launch, DeepMind acknowledged that Veo 2 made important enhancements within the particulars and realism of the generated movies. The AI mannequin was additionally more proficient in cinematography and may perceive genres, lens varieties, cinematic results, and digicam actions.
To generate movies utilizing Veo 2, customers will first need to open the Shorts digicam, faucet Add to open the media picker, after which faucet Create on the high. There, customers will see a textual content discipline the place they’ll add their immediate. Once accomplished, they’ll choose the type, faucet Create video and select the specified size.
YouTube mentioned it is going to be including SynthID watermarks to all AI-generated video clips to assist mitigate the chance of deepfakes. Notably, the video technology function is at present solely obtainable in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US.
