Meta has fair unwrapped a novel potential tool for — or menace to — Hollywood.
The internet enormous, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, on Friday proclaimd Movie Gen: a novel AI tool that can originate rational-seeing videos clips (with coordinated AI-originated audio) that are up to 16 seconds in length based on a text prompt. According to Meta, Movie Gen also can originate personalized AI videos using a one ptoastyo. Meta shelp it is still testing Movie Gen and did not supply details on how or when it would be employable accessiblely.
Meta separated clips originated using Movie Gen, including a surfing koala, a baby hippo swimming in a river (a nod to internet meme-celebrity Moo Deng), and a “woman DJ” spinning sign ups.
The company didn’t detail what sources of data it employd for Movie Gen, saying only, “We’ve trained these models on a combination of licensed and accessiblely employable data sets.”
Other aenjoy text-to-video systems integrate OpenAI’s Sora (which is not employable accessiblely yet either). The advent of rational-seeing gen-AI video platestablishs has alarmed some in the media and delightment biz, including Tyler Perry — who, citing Sora particularpartner, shelp he was suspfinishing a computed $800 million expansion to his Atlanta studios.