"Google Gemini - the tech giant's generative AI video model - is launching the ability to generate social media-ready vertical video. That's all well and good, but it raises the question: Does that mean even more AI slop? Google Veo is widely regarded as the leading AI video model (different versions of Veo claim the top four spots on LMArena's text-to-video leaderboard), so the answer is almost certainly yes."
"Google announced this week that Veo 3.1 - the latest version of Gemini's text-to-video generator - could now generate "social-ready 9:16 videos directly." In other words, the videos are generated with the vertical, scroll-ready format that you see on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels. "Designed for mobile-first applications, this mode delivers faster results and optimized composition by generating full-frame vertical video rather than cropping from landscape," read a statement from Google."
"The online world is increasingly populated by AI-generated vertical video, some of which is the much-maligned slop. Meta, for instance, launched Vibes, a social site entirely dedicated to generating and scrolling AI videos. AI critics call it an "infinite slop machine." It tracks that Google would give users the ability to generate social-ready video - people want it - but it might not make your scrolling experience any better."
Google's Gemini Veo 3.1 can now produce full-frame 9:16 vertical videos directly, optimized for mobile-first uses and designed to deliver faster results and improved composition. The vertical output avoids cropping landscape footage and targets TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels formats. Veo is considered a leading text-to-video model with top placements on LMArena's leaderboard. The online ecosystem already contains many AI-generated vertical videos, some criticized as low-quality "slop." Platforms like Meta's Vibes, dedicated to generating and scrolling AI videos, exemplify concerns that easier vertical generation could worsen short-form content quality and scrolling experience.
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