Google is bringing its AI-powered photo-to-video capability to more apps

Google is adding caller AI-powered features to Google Photos and YouTube Shorts that let users to alteration their photos into videos. The tools are akin to the Veo 3-powered photo-to-video capabilities that were added to Google’s Gemini app earlier this month, lone they’re powered by Google’s older Veo 2 video exemplary alternatively and person much limitations.

The photo-to-video AI procreation successful Google Photos is restricted to making six-second clips, portion the YouTube Shorts version allows users to prime what clip magnitude to generate. Unlike successful Gemini oregon utilizing Veo 2 itself, however, neither instrumentality allows users to participate their ain punctual descriptions to usher the results. Instead, users tin lone prime from a database of provided prompts, specified arsenic “Subtle movements” oregon “I’m feeling lucky” successful Google Photos.

The diagnostic is starting to rotation retired contiguous successful the US for Google Photos connected Android and iOS devices, and implicit the adjacent week for YouTube Shorts users successful the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

A Remix instrumentality for Google Photos volition besides beryllium disposable to Android and iOS users successful the US successful the adjacent fewer weeks. This instrumentality transforms photos into a antithetic style, including anime, comics, sketches, and 3D animation. The photo-to-video and Remix tools volition beryllium housed nether a caller Create tab successful the Photos app that’s launching successful the US adjacent month. The Create tab places the tools alongside different originative features similar collages, item video, and more, truthful that they’re each successful 1 spot and easier to find.

Google warns users that the Remix and photo-to-video features are “experimental” and whitethorn nutrient inaccurate results. You tin thumbs up oregon thumbs down connected generated images and videos to supply feedback that Google tin usage to amended the tools going forward. All videos and photos generated volition see Google’s invisible SynthID integer watermark. Videos generated successful Photos volition besides transportation a disposable watermark that makes them easier to place arsenic AI-generated astatine a glance.

The YouTube Shorts camera is besides getting caller generative AI effects that tin make images based connected doodles and use video effects to selfies that duplicate the idiosyncratic oregon marque them look similar they’re swimming underwater. YouTube is making these effects and different generative AI tools easier for Shorts users to find with a caller AI Playground hub, which users tin entree by tapping the sparkle icon successful the apical close country erstwhile creating a video. AI Playground is disposable present for Shorts users successful the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand “to start,” according to Google.

This update adds to the generative AI capabilities successful Google Photos that were already miles up of thing that Apple provides successful the iOS Photos app. The 2 companies person antithetic approaches, however: portion Google lets your imaginativeness tally chaotic (sometimes to concerning limits), Apple’s Image Playground instrumentality won’t make photorealistic images, successful bid to mitigate concerns implicit things similar deepfakes and misinformation.