Google’s Veo 3 Is Already Deepfaking All of YouTube’s Most Smooth-Brained Content

Wake up, babe, new viral AI video generator dropped. This time, it’s not OpenAI’s Sora model in the spotlight, it’s Google’s Veo 3, which was announced on Tuesday during the company’s annual I/O keynote. Naturally, people are eager to see what chaos Veo 3 can wreak, and the results have been, well, chaotic. We’ve got disjointed Michael Bay fodder, talking muffins, self-aware AI sims, puppy-centric pharmaceutical ads—the list goes on. One thing that I keep seeing over and over, however, is—to put it bluntly—AI slop, and a very specific variety. For whatever reason, all of you seem to be absolutely hellbent on getting Veo to conjure up a torrent of smooth-brain YouTube content. The worst part is that this thing is actually kind of good at cranking it out, too. Don’t believe me? Here are the receipts. You can barely tell this iPhone unboxing isn't real pic.twitter.com/vfZ2lUoliZ — Matt Shumer (@mattshumer_) May 21, 2025 Is this 100% convincing? No. No, it is not. At a glance, though, m ... Read full article.