Google Gemini Omni will generate videos with recognizable superheroes if you know how to craft the right prompts, but this is bad news for DC, Marvel, Disney, and probably you

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I blame Luke Skywalker and Jerry Springer, or rather, I blame the AI-generated versions of them for my foray into casual IP theft while using Google's relatively new and powerful generative video platform: Omni.

It's been a few weeks since Google I/O 2026, where the search (increasingly AI) giant introduced a raft of Gemini updates, including Omni, its most capable generative video platform yet.

After watching the keynote, I was instantly inspired to create my own claymation-style videos. While my claymation facsimile bore only a passing resemblance to me, I was impressed. The 10-second AI clip looked as if it had been painstakingly handcrafted in stop-motion clay.

Then, like many fantastic AI tools, I quickly forgot about it, until today, when I stumbled on this now viral clip of Luke Skywalker on an episode of Jerry Springer.

The all-AI video depicts Luke tearfully recounting how he learned...

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