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YouTube Shorts is getting a tool for adding AI

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YouTube Shorts is getting a tool for adding AI

It's about to get easier to add AI-generated video into your short-form posts. YouTube announced that Shorts will integrate Veo 2 — Google DeepMind’s newest video mode — which will allow users to generate and add AI clips into their videos.

The new feature will be a part of Shorts' Dream Screen, which already lets users add AI-generated backgrounds to their posts.

Wrote Youtube in a blog post announcing the news: "Need a specific scene but don't have the right footage? Want to turn your imagination into reality and tell a unique story? Simply use a text prompt to generate a video clip that fits perfectly into your narrative, or create a whole new world of content. It’s that easy!"

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YouTube claimed in the blog post that Veo 2 better "understands real-world physics and human movement," which should result in more detailed and accurate results. Users should also be able to create AI video that fits a specific "style, lens, or cinematic effect."

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The blog post includes a (pretty cheesy) example of how creators could use the tool — a video in which a guy's dog grows to monster size.

It is both neat and a bit worrying that AI video is so easy to create. YouTube noted that AI-generated creations would feature both SynthID watermarks and clear labels. Hopefully, that will ease confusion from viewers.


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For the time being, the new AI feature has been launched for users in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.