What if you happen to might enter a single nonetheless picture and make a whole video? Whereas which may sound like one thing far-fetched, it’s really one thing you are able to do with Google’s newest AI endeavor, the Vlogger AI video generator.
Google researchers unveiled Vlogger this week, showcasing the AI mannequin’s capabilities in a number of movies and a paper that particulars the AI’s capabilities. The device permits the person to enter a reference picture after which feed numerous instructions to the AI to assist decide what the video will appear like. It’s a little bit of a special method to video era in comparison with OpenAI’s Sora, however it might nonetheless have plenty of makes use of.
There are, clearly, some issues round these capabilities. For starters, what’s to cease anybody from merely inputting a picture of any random individual after which creating AI movies of them? Google’s Vlogger AI video generator will allow you to do exactly that. It’ll additionally allow you to match up the mouth of an individual to an audio monitor, even when it’s in one other language, so you can technically create Spanish content material utilizing somebody who doesn’t communicate Spanish.
Primarily based on the knowledge available in the paper, and on the challenge’s web site, it seems that you could be additionally be capable of command the AI generator to maneuver the persona’s physique round. It’s potential I’m misunderstanding the notes offered within the challenge info, but when that’s the case, it definitely presents numerous management over the video.
In fact, the tech is much from good, and there are nonetheless these tell-tale indicators that Vlogger is producing these movies utilizing AI. In some examples, the mouth actions really feel very unnatural, which provides away the usage of AI to create the video. However that’s the factor with AI like this, it doesn’t must be good to be helpful. And, that is the worst that Vlogger is ever going to be. As time goes on, and Google feeds extra materials into the mannequin, it’s solely going to get higher and higher.
I’m unsure about you, however that’s each terrifying and thrilling. For now, not less than, Vlogger’s AI video generator isn’t good sufficient to show too helpful to deep fakes or misinformation campaigns. However, if we don’t get a maintain on methods to deal with AI going ahead, it might very effectively have a spot in these fields as soon as Google improves it much more.
