YouTube is introducing a number of new features to its video streaming platform, and some of them will be powered by artificial intelligence (AI). On Wednesday, the platform held its Made on YouTube event and the biggest announcement was the integration of a new AI video model, letting creators create backgrounds for shorts and six-second long videos. The AI model being used for this is Veo, which was previously unveiled by Google DeepMind. Additionally, YouTube is also introducing new ways to use AI to generate video ideas and titles for creators.
YouTube’s new AI features
In a blog post, the company highlighted that it is integrating AI video generation model Veo into YouTube Shorts later this year. The tool will build on top of Dream Screen, an experimental feature released in June. The video-streaming giant claims that it will allow users to create live video backgrounds.
Highlighting an example of what the tool is capable of doing, YouTube said, “Imagine a BookTuber stepping into the pages of the classic novel, The Secret Garden, or a fashion designer instantly creating something to share with their audience. “Imagining up fun and imaginative design concepts.” But Background Generation is just one part of what VO Shorts will do for creators.
The tool will also allow creators to create six-second long vertical videos for shorts. The way the company sees the use case, if a creator lacks some footage to create the perfect short-format video, they can use AI to generate it and add it to their shorts videos . Notably, videos created using the tool will be watermarked by Google’s in-house AI labeling tool SynthID.
YouTube is also introducing automatic dubbing, a feature that will automatically dub voices in videos into different languages. It aims to promote local creators to a global audience by removing the language barrier. Currently, it is being tested with a small group of creators, but will be expanded to a larger user base in the coming months. While the company has mentioned languages like Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian, the full list of supported languages is not known.
Additionally, creators are getting another AI tool that will make it easier for them to respond to large numbers of comments. In the Comments tab in the YouTube Studio app, creators will see AI-enhanced reply suggestions to help them easily respond to their viewers. These answers will be in line with the creator’s style and can be customized.
Additionally, creators will also get a chance to use AI to brainstorm video ideas, titles, and thumbnails of videos. The Inspiration tab in YouTube Studio is now getting AI capabilities to suggest video ideas with bullet points as outlines. The feature was first announced in August and was available in beta. It is now available to a wider user base. Notably, this feature is powered by Gemini.
