{"id":442,"date":"2026-05-19T18:47:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2026-05-19T18:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:47:52","slug":"google-makes-it-easy-to-make-a-deepfake-of-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"Google Makes It Easy to Deepfake Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">One of the most immediately noticeable changes to Flow is the new video-generation model powering the experience: Omni Flash, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/generative-ai-tools-youtube-shorts-veo\/\" class=\"text link\">succeeding Veo<\/a>. Similar to how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/google-nano-banana-2-ai-image-generator-hands-on\/\" class=\"text link\">Google\u2019s Nano Banana<\/a> model brought more context about the world into the AI image-creation process, the Omni Flash model overhauls video generation with richer detail throughout clips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Flow users can generate characters in AI videos with more consistency via the Omni Flash model. Roman says this is a major improvement over the weakness in past versions of Flow, where created characters could warp during successive video generations. Also, a key character that Flow users can now generate in an AI scene after an AI scene? Themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Users set up an \u201cavatar\u201d of themselves by going into the settings of their Flow account and scanning a QR code on their phone. Then, Google asks users to record themselves saying a string of numbers aloud and move their head around to capture every angle. This selfie-capture style will feel familiar to anyone who signed up for the Sora app, which OpenAI launched last year as an AI-first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/social-media\/\" class=\"text link\">social media<\/a> platform where people can generate and share clips of themselves. OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/openai-shuts-down-sora-ipo-ai-superapp\/\" class=\"text link\">startlingly wound it down<\/a> after less than seven months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Unlike the Sora app, where users could generate videos of other users depending on the person\u2019s settings, Google\u2019s initial focus with its avatars is to let users create AI versions of themselves only, not other people. Every video generated with the Omni model, including those with your avatar, includes <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/models\/synthid\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/deepmind.google\/models\/synthid\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/models\/synthid\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google\u2019s SynthID watermark<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cYou can capture your voice and your visual identity from multiple angles and have that show up with pretty high levels of fidelity,\u201d Roman says. He generated a tongue-in-cheek video of himself teasing the Flow team in front of a dumpster fire, with an AI version of himself that looked lifelike and sounded like him. Then he used Flow to request changes to the generation, like a new background setting and a different-colored shirt, and Omni Flash adjusted the clips while preserving the avatar\u2019s details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">This isn\u2019t the first time Google has rolled out a version of self-controlled deepfake video tools for creators\u2014last month, <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/04\/08\/youtube-shorts-ai-avatar\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/04\/08\/youtube-shorts-ai-avatar\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/04\/08\/youtube-shorts-ai-avatar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube Shorts added<\/a> a limited option for users to make similar AI avatars that can be inserted into clips on that platform. Other Silicon Valley companies are also looking for ways to transform creators\u2019 outputs using generative AI. For example, last year, Meta rolled out an AI feature that can seamlessly translate Instagram Reels into different languages, even <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/creators.facebook.com\/blog\/meta-ai-translations\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/creators.facebook.com\/blog\/meta-ai-translations&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/creators.facebook.com\/blog\/meta-ai-translations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">adjusting creators\u2019 lips<\/a> to match the different voices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">While these AI tools may streamline aspects of the content production pipeline for creators\u2014you don\u2019t even have to get out of bed now to generate sassy vertical videos\u2014generative AI is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/generative-ai-backlash\/\" class=\"text link\">increasingly polarizing<\/a> audiences who see these videos as inauthentic or not aligned with their values. Well, that\u2019s if they actually clock the videos as AI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/google-makes-it-easy-to-make-a-deepfake-of-yourself\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most immediately noticeable changes to Flow is the new video-generation model powering the experience: Omni Flash, succeeding Veo. Similar to how Google\u2019s Nano Banana model brought more context about the world into the AI image-creation process, the Omni Flash model overhauls video generation with richer detail throughout clips. 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