Both Google Photos and YouTube Shorts integrate new AI video generation tools powered by VEO 2. If you are a YouTuber or Google Photos user, it shows what this means to you.
Google Photos now allows you to convert images to video using the Photo to Video feature. It's easy. Select an image from the gallery and select either the “Subtle Movement” or “I'm Lucky” prompt, and the app will run AI magic. This feature is currently being deployed for US Android and iOS users. In the next few weeks, you can also “remix” the photos and change them to comics, sketches, or anime styles.
And there's big news about YouTube shorts. The app can take video features and AI effects from photos, turn your selfies into videos of you swimming underwater, and more. Currently, photo-to-video tools are deployed to users in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but the new AI effects are available only to a limited set of creators who are expected to develop more broadly in the near future.
For easy access, YouTube Shorts has “AI Playground.” This includes all new tools and ready-made prompts for creating videos, images and music. It is located under create> (the sparkling icon in the top right corner). Google Photos will add a Create tab to the bottom navigation bar by August and will be able to find all the available AI creation tools.
To stop abuse, Google says all videos and images created with these features have SynthID Digital Watermark, an invisible tag that helps AI identify generated content.
