YouTube Shorts AI Avatars Will Clone Your Look And Voice

At the beginning of the year, Google hinted that it was working to provide creators with more AI tools, specifically mentioning the ability to “create a Short using your own likeness.” The latest updates to the YouTube and YouTube Create apps are bringing this capability to users looking to leverage AI to make content featuring photorealistic avatars of themselves.

The company says that the feature “builds on existing ingredients-to-video features in YouTube’s creation tools, making it easier and more accurate to add yourself into your videos.” Once an avatar is made only the creator who made it can use it to generate original content. Moreover, creators will be able to limit the ways other users on the platform can “remix” videos featuring their avatars. Viewers are also going to be informed with labels when a video is made using any AI tools.

To get started with avatars users will ...