Meta’s Film Gen lets customers animate pictures into movies

Meta on Friday supplied a take a look at a generative synthetic intelligence mannequin it’s engaged on that lets folks create quick movies, full with audio, from textual content prompts and pictures.

The tech titan touted “Meta Film Gen” as a “breakthrough” with regards to utilizing an AI engine to crank out video and audio.

Meta stated it’s going to get suggestions from filmmakers and creators because it eases towards making the video-generating AI engine publicly out there.

No launch plans for Film Gen had been disclosed.

“Whereas there are lots of thrilling use circumstances for these basis fashions, it is necessary to notice that generative AI is not a substitute for the work of artists and animators,” Meta stated in a publish.

The mannequin lets folks use textual content prompts to create customized movies, together with clips based mostly on folks’s pictures, of as much as 16 seconds lengthy, in line with Meta.

“Our mannequin achieves state-of-the-art outcomes with regards to creating customized movies that protect human identification and movement,” Meta stated.

“Think about animating a ‘day within the life’ video to share on Reels and enhancing it utilizing textual content prompts or making a custom-made animated birthday greeting for a pal and sending it to them on WhatsApp.”

Film Gen is the third wave of AI-powered video era at Meta, in line with the corporate.

The rise of AI-powered instruments for creating lifelike movies has prompted worries about “deepfakes” that pirate folks’s likenesses.

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