Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild
Last year I deepfaked my kid’s stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation.
It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a Gemini ad Google was running, and I never showed the videos of Buddy the deer on his adventures to my four-year-old. But it was a revealing exercise that made me think a lot about the difference between some harmless fun with generative AI and full-on slop. Maybe that Venn diagram is a perfect circle! Maybe not. But what I know for sure is that the tools to make realistic videos are surprisingly good, requiring surprisingly little effort and know-how. And that trend is continuing hot into Gemini’s Omni era.
Omni is a new family of generative modelsthat will allegedly one day be able to turn any kind of input — photo, video, text — into...
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