YouTube has launched an AI generator for full-length videos based on text descriptions — they can be published in Shorts

YouTube has a new AI-powered feature that generates short videos that users can publish in Shorts. We are talking about the YouTube Dream Screen tool, which is built on Google Veo 2. This feature previously allowed users to generate videos based on text descriptions, but before that, users could only use them as backgrounds.

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Now videos created with Dream Screen can be published to your Shorts account. To try out the new features, the user needs to activate the camera in Shorts, launch the Dream Screen function, open the media file selection panel and click the “Create” button. After that, you can enter a text description of the future video, as well as select one of the available styles, lenses, cinematic effects and specify the duration of the video.

YouTube said the ability to publish AI-generated videos to Shorts will roll out this week to users in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It will also roll out to other countries later, but no specific timeline was given.

The update comes as a bit of a surprise, given that the latest version of Google Veo’s neural network is still in early access. According to YouTube, the neural network’s integration with the Dream Screen feature will allow it to more quickly generate more “detailed and realistic” videos that take into account real-world physics and the natural movements of people. At the same time, AI-generated videos will be marked with both visible visual labels and invisible Google SynthID watermarks indicating that the video was created or modified using the neural network.