Meta introduced an AI model for turning photos and texts into videos with audio

"Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has introduced Movie Gen, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model for creating voice-over realistic videos based on textual instructions and photos.

 

Movie Gen can be used for a variety of tasks, including creating and editing video clips and audio tracks up to 16 seconds long, and converting images to video, Meta reported.

 

The US tech giant plans to offer Movie Gen to Hollywood studios and artists, and hopes to integrate it into its social platforms as early as next year.

 

No release plans for Movie Gen have been revealed.

 

Movie Gen is trained on "a combination of licensed and publicly available datasets," noted Meta, which has used public content from Facebook and Instagram for its AI products.

 

OpenAI, maker of AI chatbot ChatGPT, unveiled a similar system called Sora in February this year, and AI startup Runway in September got permission from movie studio Lionsgate to use its films to build its own model.

 

On the other hand, the emergence of such generative AI models has raised serious concerns about "deepfakes"."