Meta Platforms Inc on Friday provided a look at a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model it is working on that lets people create short videos, complete with audio, from text prompts and photos.
The tech titan touted “Meta Movie Gen” as a “breakthrough” when it comes to using an AI engine to produce video and audio.
Meta said it would seek feedback from filmmakers and creators as it eases toward making the video-generating AI engine publicly available.
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No release plans for Movie Gen were disclosed.
“While there are many exciting use cases for these foundation models, it’s important to note that generative AI isn’t a replacement for the work of artists and animators,” Meta said in a post.
The model lets people use text prompts to create custom videos, including clips based on people’s photos, of up to 16 seconds long, the company said.
“Our model achieves state-of-the-art results when it comes to creating personalized videos that preserve human identity and motion,” Meta said.
“Imagine animating a ‘day in the life’ video to share on Reels and editing it using text prompts or creating a customized animated birthday greeting for a friend and sending it to them on WhatsApp.”
Movie Gen is the third wave of AI-powered video generation at Meta, the company said.
Meta is one of multiple major tech companies developing AI models focused on generating videos, which are more complicated and expensive to build than those that return AI-generated text.
Microsoft Corp-backed OpenAI has its own video generation tool, called Sora, that debuted earlier this year and can create videos up to a minute in length, although that technology is not available to the public yet. DeepMind, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc’s Google, also has a video generation tool, called Veo, which was unveiled earlier this year.
However, the rise of AI tools for creating realistic videos has prompted worries about “deepfakes” that pirate people’s likenesses.
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