Google's Frighteningly Good Veo 3 AI Videos To Be Integrated With YouTube Shorts (arstechnica.com) 20
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has announced that the Google Veo 3 AI video generator will be integrated with YouTube Shorts later this summer. According to Mohan, YouTube Shorts has seen a rise in popularity even compared to YouTube as a whole. The streaming platform is now the most watched source of video in the world, but Shorts specifically have seen a massive 186 percent increase in viewership over the past year. Mohan says Shorts now average 200 billion daily views.
YouTube has already equipped creators with a few AI tools, including Dream Screen, which can produce AI video backgrounds with a text prompt. Veo 3 support will be a significant upgrade, though. At the Cannes festival, Mohan revealed that the streaming site will begin offering integration with Google's leading video model later this summer. "I believe these tools will open new creative lanes for everyone to explore," said Mohan. [...]
While you can add Veo 3 videos (or any video) to a YouTube Short right now, they don't fit with the format's portrait orientation focus. Veo 3 outputs 720p landscape videos, meaning you'd have black bars in a Short. Presumably, Google will create a custom version of the model for YouTube to spit out vertical video clips. Mohan didn't mention a pricing model, but Veo 3 probably won't be cheap for Shorts creators. Currently, you must pay for Google's $250 AI Ultra plan to access Veo 3, and that still limits you to 125 8-second videos per month.
YouTube has already equipped creators with a few AI tools, including Dream Screen, which can produce AI video backgrounds with a text prompt. Veo 3 support will be a significant upgrade, though. At the Cannes festival, Mohan revealed that the streaming site will begin offering integration with Google's leading video model later this summer. "I believe these tools will open new creative lanes for everyone to explore," said Mohan. [...]
While you can add Veo 3 videos (or any video) to a YouTube Short right now, they don't fit with the format's portrait orientation focus. Veo 3 outputs 720p landscape videos, meaning you'd have black bars in a Short. Presumably, Google will create a custom version of the model for YouTube to spit out vertical video clips. Mohan didn't mention a pricing model, but Veo 3 probably won't be cheap for Shorts creators. Currently, you must pay for Google's $250 AI Ultra plan to access Veo 3, and that still limits you to 125 8-second videos per month.
I'm more upset about vertical video (Score:5, Insightful)
Presumably, Google will create a custom version of the model for YouTube to spit out vertical video clips.
As annoying as AI generated slop is, vertical video is more annoying to me. I usually only catch Youtube on TV because I'm tired of looking at an up-close tiny screen by the time I'm ready to relax.
Plus, their integration of shorts with the platform is an utter mess. You can watch shorts on mobile and on TV boxes, and you can even use mobile to control the playlist on a TV - but you can't direct a short from your phone to play on the TV at all.
vertical videos are pure evil (Score:5, Funny)
They are the plague of this century and they need to die.
My younger nephew told me that the only reason I hate them is because I am an old boomer resistant to change.
I told him the only reason his generation makes vertical videos is because of the design of their phones, and that design was created by old boomers like me. So basically his generation lets old boomers decide what they like and don't like.
He mumbled something unintelligeable and went away.
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I told him the only reason his generation makes vertical videos is because of the design of their phones, and that design was created by old boomers like me. So basically his generation lets old boomers decide what they like and don't like.
Heh, that's a great reply. I tell my kids that anything posted to the internet is forever public. One kid still seems to think that "influencer" is a proper career, so I'm not sure my message is being accepted...
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Young people don't understand longevity and consequences so probably all they heard was "blah, blah, blah."
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I guess they suffer from Vertical Video Syndrome, like more and more people nowadays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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I'll summarize YouTube's "shorts" algorithm:
1. Show Waffle Iron a row of shorts
2. Waffle Iron clicks on the "Don't show these" button.
3. Print "Got it. We'll adjust your preferences."
4. Sleep(a couple of days).
5. Goto 1.
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I completely block Shorts using uBlock Origin. I found a filter I could add that removes them from Youtube completely. Heavenly bliss.
So frightening (Score:2)
So frightening, in fact, that apparently nobody wants to include any direct links [petapixel.com] to anything that actually showcases it.
Why does YouTube search suck so badly? (Score:2)
Why can't YouTube search utilize AI? When will it possible to search for videos by describing the content instead of by the video description text?
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Shorts suck (Score:5, Insightful)
I have inadvertently clicked on what I thought was a video only to be forced into Shorts, and what an abysmal mess. The Short plays, but I don't like the placement on my monitor. I touch my mousewheel and I'm flung into some alternate universe where the Short I was on is now gone and something else is trying to take its place. And you can't get back to where you were.
YT has fast become nigh unusable. About the only time I go there is to watch a news video because the news website makes it as difficult as possible to watch a video on their site (BBC excluded), or I happen to come across part of a song and want to hear the entire thing. Other than that, there isn't a need for me to go there.
Doom Scoll (Score:3)
shorts suck. I click the 3 dots and say don’t show me shorts. Then next day they are back again. Then in mobile they are starting to indistinguishable to regular videos. Shorts need to die in a fire, but YT wants a tick-tock equivalent doom scroller.
Short videos (Score:3)
The fast food of information.
No Problem. (Score:2)
As long as they integrate it with YouTube Shorts (which I never use) and not the normal YouTube videos, that's fine by me.
STOP IT (Score:2)
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Good idea. Shorts + AI = Death of Youtube (Score:2)
AI videos thus far have been anywhere from "sort of funny, but dumb" to "utterly unwatchable bullshit." Shorts are absolutely useless trash. Combine them and make shorts take up yet more of the Youtube interface and it'll kill the platform off completely.
If Google is going to force more AI content onto the platform, how about they give us a "filter out AI" option? Or would that require more AI to identify the AI they're force-feeding into everything so that we could have layer after layer of AI deciding our