{"id":593554,"date":"2023-01-03T05:48:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T11:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/03\/quickvid-uses-ai-to-generate-short-form-videos-complete-with-voiceovers\/"},"modified":"2023-01-03T05:48:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T11:48:52","slug":"quickvid-uses-ai-to-generate-short-form-videos-complete-with-voiceovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/03\/quickvid-uses-ai-to-generate-short-form-videos-complete-with-voiceovers\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickVid uses AI to generate short-form videos, complete with voiceovers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Generative AI is coming<\/span> for videos.\u00a0A new website, QuickVid<\/a>, combines several generative AI systems into a single tool for automatically creating short-form YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat videos.<\/p>\n

Given as little as a single word, QuickVid chooses a background video from a library, writes a script and keywords, overlays images generated by DALL-E 2<\/a>\u00a0and adds a synthetic voiceover and background music from YouTube\u2019s royalty-free music library. QuickVid\u2019s creator, Daniel Habib, says that he\u2019s building the service to help creators meet the \u201cever-growing\u201d demand from their fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy providing creators with tools to quickly and easily produce quality content, QuickVid helps creators increase their content output, reducing the risk of burnout,\u201d Habib told TechCrunch in an email interview. \u201cOur goal is to empower your favorite creator to keep up with the demands of their audience by leveraging advancements in AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

But depending on how they\u2019re used, tools like QuickVid threaten to flood already-crowded channels with spammy and duplicative content. They also face potential backlash from creators who opt not to use the tools, whether because of cost ($10 per month) or on principle, yet might have to compete with a raft of new AI-generated videos.<\/p>\n

Going after video<\/h2>\n

QuickVid, which Habib, a self-taught developer who previously worked at Meta on Facebook Live and video infrastructure, built in a matter of weeks, launched on December 27. It\u2019s relatively bare bones at present \u2014 Habib says that more personalization options will arrive in January \u2014 but QuickVid can cobble together the components that make up a typical informational YouTube Short or TikTok video, including captions and even avatars.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to use. First, a user enters a prompt describing the subject matter of the video they want to create. QuickVid uses the prompt to generate a script, leveraging the generative text powers of GPT-3. From keywords either extracted from the script automatically or entered manually, QuickVid selects a background video from the royalty-free stock media library Pexels and generates overlay images using DALL-E 2. It then outputs a voiceover via Google Cloud\u2019s text-to-speech API \u2014 Habib says that users will soon be able to clone their voice \u2014 before combining all these elements into a video.<\/p>\n

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\"QuickVid\"<\/p>\n

Image Credits:<\/strong> QuickVid<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

See this video made with the prompt \u201cCats\u201d:<\/p>\n

\nhttps:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_5pg7k95x9ig2tofh7mkrr_cfr.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/p>\n

Or this one:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_61ighv4x55slq9582dbx_cfr.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/p>\n

QuickVid certainly isn\u2019t pushing the boundaries of what\u2019s possible with generative AI. Both Meta and Google have showcased<\/a> AI systems that can generate completely original clips given a text prompt. But QuickVid amalgamates existing AI to exploit the repetitive, templated format of B-roll-heavy short-form videos, getting around the problem of having to generate the footage itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuccessful creators have an extremely high-quality bar and aren\u2019t interested in putting out content that they don\u2019t feel is in their own voice,\u201d Habib said. \u201cThis is the use case we\u2019re focused on.\u201d<\/p>\n

That supposedly being the case, in terms of quality, QuickVid\u2019s videos are generally a mixed bag. The background videos tend to be a bit random or only tangentially related to the topic, which isn\u2019t surprising given QuickVids being currently limited to the Pexels catalog. The DALL-E 2-generated images, meanwhile, exhibit the limitations of today\u2019s text-to-image tech, like garbled text and off proportions.<\/p>\n

In response to my feedback, Habib said that QuickVid is \u201cbeing tested and tinkered with daily.\u201d<\/p>\n

Copyright issues<\/h2>\n

According to Habib, QuickVid users retain the right to use the content they create commercially and have permission to monetize it on platforms like YouTube. But the copyright status around AI-generated content is \u2026 nebulous, at least presently. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently moved<\/a> to revoke copyright protection for an AI-generated comic, for example, saying copyrightable works require human authorship.<\/p>\n

When asked about how the USPTO decision might affect QuickVid, Habib said he believes that it only pertain to the \u201cpatentability\u201d of AI-generated products and not the rights of creators to use and monetize their content. Creators, he pointed out, aren\u2019t often submitting patents for videos and usually lean into the creator economy, letting other creators repurpose their clips to increase their own reach.<\/p>\n

\u201cCreators care about putting out high-quality content in their voice that will help grow their channel,\u201d Habib said.<\/p>\n

Another legal challenge on the horizon might affect QuickVid\u2019s DALL-E 2 integration \u2014 and, by extension, the site\u2019s ability to generate image overlays. Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI are being\u00a0sued<\/a> in a class action lawsuit that accuses them of violating copyright law by allowing Copilot, a code-generating system, to regurgitate sections of licensed code without providing credit. (Copilot was co-developed by OpenAI and GitHub, which Microsoft owns.) The case has implications for generative art AI like DALL-E 2, which similarly has been found to copy and paste<\/a> from the datasets on which they were trained (i.e., images).<\/p>\n

Habib isn\u2019t concerned, arguing that the generative AI genie\u2019s out of the bottle. \u201cIf another lawsuit showed up and OpenAI disappeared tomorrow, there are several alternatives that could power QuickVid,\u201d he said, referring to the open source DALL-E 2-like system Stable Diffusion<\/a>. QuickVid is already testing Stable Diffusion for generating avatar pics.<\/p>\n

Moderation and spam<\/h2>\n

Aside from the legal dilemmas, QuickVid might soon have a moderation problem on its hands. While OpenAI has implemented filters and techniques to prevent them, generative AI has well-known toxicity and factual accuracy problems. GPT-3 spouts misinformation<\/a>, particularly about recent events, which are beyond the boundaries of its knowledge base. And ChatGPT, a fine-tuned offspring of GPT-3, has been shown<\/a> to use sexist and racist language.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s worrisome, particularly for people who\u2019d use QuickVid to create informational videos. In a quick test, I had my partner \u2014 who\u2019s far more creative than me, particularly in this area \u2014\u00a0 enter a few offensive prompts to see what QuickVid would generate. To QuickVid\u2019s credit, obviously problematic prompts like \u201cJewish new world order\u201d and \u201c9\/11 conspiracy theory\u201d didn\u2019t yield toxic scripts. But for \u201cCritical race theory indoctrinating students,\u201d QuickVid generated a video implying that critical race theory could be used to brainwash schoolchildren.<\/p>\n

See:<\/p>\n

\"QuickVid\"<\/p>\n

https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_e4wba39us0vqtc8051491_cfr.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/p>\n

Habib says that he\u2019s relying on OpenAI\u2019s filters to do most of the moderation work and asserts that it\u2019s incumbent on users to manually review every video created by QuickVid to ensure \u201ceverything is within the boundaries of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a general rule, I believe people should be able to express themselves and create whatever content they want,\u201d Habib said.<\/p>\n

That apparently includes spammy content. Habib makes the case that the video platforms\u2019 algorithms, not QuickVid, are best positioned to determine the quality of a video, and that people who produce low-quality content \u201care only damaging their own reputations.\u201d The reputational damage will naturally disincentivize people from creating mass spam campaigns with QuickVid, he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf people don\u2019t want to watch your video, then you won\u2019t receive distribution on platforms like YouTube,\u201d he added. \u201cProducing low-quality content will also make people look at your channel in a negative light.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s instructive to look at ad agencies like Fractl, which in 2019 used an AI system called Grover to generate an entire site of marketing materials \u2014 reputation be damned. In an interview<\/a> with The Verge, Fractl partner Kristin Tynski said that she foresaw generative AI enabling \u201ca massive tsunami of computer-generated content across every niche imaginable.\u201d<\/p>\n

In any case, video-sharing platforms like TikTok and YouTube haven\u2019t had to contend with moderating AI-generated content on a massive scale. Deepfakes \u2014 synthetic videos that replace an existing person with someone else\u2019s likeness \u2014 began to populate platforms like YouTube several years ago, driven by tools<\/a> that made deepfaked footage easier to produce. But unlike even the most convincing deepfakes today, the types of videos QuickVid creates aren\u2019t obviously AI-generated in any way.<\/p>\n

Google Search\u2019s policy on AI-generated text might be a preview of what\u2019s to come in the video domain. Google doesn\u2019t treat synthetic text differently from human-written text where it concerns search rankings but takes actions<\/a> on content that\u2019s \u201cintended to manipulate search rankings and not help users.\u201d That includes content stitched together or combined from different web pages that \u201c[doesn\u2019t] add sufficient value\u201d as well as content generated through purely automated processes, both of which might apply to QuickVid.<\/p>\n

In other words, AI-generated videos might not be banned from platforms outright should they take off in a major way but rather simply become the cost of doing business. That isn\u2019t likely to allay the fears of experts who believe that platforms like TikTok are becoming a new home for misleading<\/a> videos, but \u2014 as Habib said during the interview \u2014 \u201cthere is no stopping the generative AI revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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