A
new
AI-powered
video
generator
from
Meta
produces
high-definition
footage
complete
with
sound,
the
company
announced
today.
The
announcement
comes
several
months
after
competitor
OpenAI
unveiled
Sora,
its
text-to-video
model
—
though
public
access
to
Movie
Gen
isn’t
happening
yet.
Movie
Gen
uses
text
inputs
to
automatically
generate
new
videos,
as
well
as
edit
existing
footage
or
still
images.
The
New
York
Times
reports
that
the
audio
added
to
videos
is
also
AI-generated,
matching
the
imagery
with
ambient
noise,
sound
effects,
and
background
music.
The
videos
can
be
generated
in
different
aspect
ratios.
In
addition
to
generating
new
clips,
Meta
says
Movie
Gen
can
also
create
custom
videos
from
images
or
take
an
existing
video
and
change
different
elements
of
it.
One
example
shared
by
the
company
shows
a
still
headshot
of
a
woman;
the
added
video
depicts
her
sitting
in
a
pumpkin
patch
sipping
a
drink.
A
still
from
a
video
produced
using
Meta’s
Movie
Gen.Image:
Meta
Movie
Gen
can
also
be
used
to
edit
existing
footage
and
change
the
style
and
transitions
or
add
things
that
didn’t
previously
exist.
In
one
example
shared
by
Meta,
a
relatively
innocuous
video
of
what
appears
to
be
an
illustrated
runner
is
edited
using
AI
in
different
ways:
in
one
frame,
he’s
holding
pompoms.
In
another,
the
background
has
been
edited
to
depict
a
desert.
In
a
third,
the
runner
is
wearing
a
dinosaur
costume.
Changes
can
be
made
using
text
prompts.
A
video
edited
using
Movie
Gen.
Nearly
two
years
after
powerful
AI
image
and
video
generators
hit
the
mainstream,
AI
companies
have
pushed
the
technology
further:
in
just
the
last
six
months,
major
tech
companies
like
Google
and
OpenAI
are
working
on
similar
tools,
along
with
smaller
startups.
OpenAI’s
Sora,
first
announced
in
February,
still
hasn’t
launched
publicly;
this
week,
a
co-lead
working
on
the
video
generator
left
the
company
for
Google.
Meta’s
chief
product
officer,
Chris
Cox,
writes
on
Threads
that
the
company
“[isn’t]
ready
to
release
this
as
a
product
anytime
soon,”
as
it’s
still
expensive
and
generation
time
is
too
long.
AI
image
generators
raised
concerns
about
ownership
and
potentially
harmful
use
cases,
and
AI
video
generators
have
only
exacerbated
them.
Reports
indicate
that
AI
startup
Runaway
trained
its
video
generator
on
thousands
of
scraped
YouTube
videos,
something
YouTube
CEO
Neal
Mohan
has
already
said
would
violate
the
platform’s
terms
of
use.
In
a
blog
post,
Meta
says
it
trained
Movie
Gen
on
“a
combination
of
licensed
and
publicly
available
datasets”
but
didn’t
specify
which.
Creatives
like
filmmakers,
photographers,
artists,
writers,
and
actors
also
worry
about
how
AI
generators
will
affect
their
livelihoods,
and
AI
has
been
a
central
part
of
several
strikes,
including
the
historic
joint
Hollywood
strikes
by
the
Screen
Actors
Guild
-
American
Federation
of
Television
and
Radio
Artists
(SAG-AFTRA)
and
Writers
Guild
of
America
(WGA)
last
year.
(Originally posted by Mia Sato)
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