Skip to main content

YouTube can now generate a 6-second video Short using AI

YouTube content creators will soon have a slew of new AI-empowered tools at their disposal, the company announced Wednesday at its Made on YouTube event in New York City, including the ability to generate a complete six-second YouTube Shorts video clip with a text prompt.

The new capability arrives thanks to the integration of Google Deep Mind’s Veo video generation model into YouTube Shorts. Built to compete with the likes of OpenAI’s Sora, Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha, Adobe’s Firefly or Kuaishou Technology’s Kling, Veo can generate six-second clips at 1080p resolution across a wide range of cinematic themes and styles.

Recommended Videos

Veo’s integration will augment YouTube’s AI-powered “Dream Screen,” which debuted in 2023 and enabled content creators to generate backgrounds for their videos. Users will now be able to enter a text prompt into Dream Screen, have it generate four image outputs, and then animate one of them with Veo. Any content created with this workflow will be watermarked with Google’s SynthID system, though repeated studies have shown how easily such visual identifiers can be circumvented.

Veo wasn’t the only new feature announced at the event. Google is also working on digital “jewels” that viewers can send to live-streamers, similar to the “gifts” on TikTok. Vertical Livestreams in the U.S. will be the first to try the “jewels.” What’s more, the company expanded its automatic dubbing service to include French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, as well as made its Community hubs available to more channels.

Google also announced that creators can use AI to help them “brainstorm” video ideas in YouTube Studio. The Inspiration tab, which has been in beta testing, will not only suggest the concept for what you should make but it will also generate a title, thumbnail, and even the first few lines of dialog, all automatically. These new tools should help further lower YouTube’s barriers to entry for content creators and help the video platform better compete with the likes of TikTok.

Andrew Tarantola
Andrew Tarantola is a journalist with more than a decade reporting on emerging technologies ranging from robotics and machine…
ChatGPT can now generate images for free using Dall-E
ChatGPT results on an iPhone.

Since its launch last September, OpenAI's Dall-E 3 image generator has only been available to its Plus, Teams, and Enterprise subscribers. Now, nearly a year later, Dall-E is accessible to the rest of us — just with some stringent restrictions.

https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1821644904843636871

Read more
More AI may be coming to YouTube in a big way
a content creator recording a thing in the kitchen with a bowl of food

YouTube content creators could soon be able to brainstorm video topic, title, and thumbnail ideas with Gemini AI as part of the "brainstorm with Gemini" experiment Google is currently testing, the company announced via its Creator Insider channel.

The feature is first being released to a small number of selected content creators for critique, as a spokesperson from the company told TechCrunch, before the company decides whether to roll it out to all users. "We're collecting feedback at this stage to make sure we're developing these features thoughtfully and will improve the feature based on feedback," the video's host said.

Read more
Nvidia reportedly caught scraping AI data from Netflix and YouTube (again)
Nvidia CEO Jensen in front of a background.

According to a damning report from 404 Media, backed with internal Slack chats, emails, and documents obtained by the outlet, Nvidia helped itself to "a human lifetime visual experience worth of training data per day," Ming-Yu Liu, vice president of Research at Nvidia and a Cosmos project leader, admitted in a May email.

Unnamed former Nvidia employees told 404 that they had been asked to scrape video content from Netflix, YouTube, and other online sources in order to obtain training data for use with the company's various AI products. Those include Nvidia’s Omniverse 3D world generator, self-driving car systems, and “digital human.”

Read more