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
    885·
    2 months ago

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

    • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
      321·
      2 months ago

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

      • dmtalon@infosec.pubEnglish
        61·
        2 months 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

      • lost_faith@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        ublock can do that? I only watch my friends shorts to help them with views and thumbs, will it block the shorts if I go to the channel and view there, or only on main page?

        • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          It sure can. Click on uBlock’s icon and choose the little eyedropper icon to enter picker mode. Then click on the shorts. In that window that pops up go to the part that says cosmetic filters and click on the top one. I don’t remember exactly which one will remove the shorts but just scroll through those until the shorts are highlighted with a red box. Then click create. That should get rid of them. Until youtube changes the element, which they do. I’ve had to re-do it twice so far this year.

          I’m not sure on your second question. You could try it and then delete it if you can’t watch them.

          • lost_faith@lemmy.caEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            Oh sweet, I’ll be looking at that tonight. Thanks. If it blocks on their page I’ll just disable, watch, reenable, but it sounds like this should only work on the main page. Thanks again

  • SkyNTPEnglish
    262·
    2 months ago

    Did anyone stop to ask themselves if we even would want to watch AI videos?

    Of course not.

    I, and I suspect many other people, watch YouTube for the people in the videos and their experiences (or at least the illusion of that). Watching fake videos defeats the whole purpose.

    YouAITube sounds like nothing more than a kaleidoscope with extra steps.

    • azl@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      There’s a place for this, if it’s entertaining. Memes, comedy, maybe some more legitimate uses too. A lot of YouTube is some guy just sitting in front of a camera in the most boring perfectly curated home office. Throw in something visually interesting that enhances the subject matter and I may watch more.

    • lost_faith@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      I can’t even stand listening to the AI voice overs. This one yt chan does Dune and a bunch of other stuff I like to watch and listen to, but their use of an AI voice over reading their material just turned me off completely after 4 videos

    • ContrarianTrail@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Did anyone stop to ask themselves if we even would want to watch AI videos?

      Of course not.

      Shitty AI videos? No. Good ones? Sure.

      • nul@programming.devEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        The same nonsense is invading all of my feeds as well. These things need to be required to label their AI usage so they can be filtered out.

    • astropenguin5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Exactly, there’s already plenty. I do my best to scroll as fast as possible and not interact, it will be unfortunate if this makes it worse tho

    • astropenguin5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Exactly, there’s already plenty. I do my best to scroll as fast as possible and not interact, it will be unfortunate if this makes it worse tho

  • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    Once people can run this level of generative AI locally, there would be no need for YouTube to be involved. We could all generate our own shorts from a prompt.

    • GounEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      I guess the fun part is sharing them, there’s where youtube lives

    • Maxnmy's@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

      We could, but instead we’re going to monetize it and achieve unprecedented levels of brain rot.

  • cuuube@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    I’m pretty sure I’ve already encountered lots of these…

    Sometimes they’re a normal video or sometimes they are shorts. Their titles are often a weird or incorrect description of the video. The video is either a loop of an AI voice reading out loud Reddit q&a posts or a compilation of shorter funny/shocking/etc videos. It kinda feels like the type of videos bot farms would watch just to give/get clicks.

  • Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachtsEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Hopefully this will be what finally convinces YouTube to get rid of Shorts. I doubt there is a single creator that solely uploads to Shorts, they’re just reposts of Reels and TikToks