Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority
Having spent some time with generative AI, I thought I had a fair idea of what to expect from Veo 3 — Google’s cutting-edge AI video generator. But when I finally ponied up the $20 for a Google AI Pro subscription a few weeks ago, I was surprised to find that it outperformed even my most optimistic expectations. Unlike early AI image generators that would produce obvious deformities like extra fingers or absurd architecture, Google’s Veo 3 can generate videos that look strikingly similar to their real world equivalents.
In fact, some of Veo’s videos can look so convincing on social media that I had to double-check whether I was looking at AI-generated content or a stock clip. Naturally, that led to the question: how good is Veo 3, really — and could the average person even tell that they’re looking at an AI-generated video? To find out, I’ve put together a short quiz below with six Veo-generated clips pit against real-world videos. Can you tell the difference?
AI-generated videos with Veo 3: Scarily good
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority
Veo 3’s ability to generate extremely convincing clips is impressive in its own right, but it also goes one step further: it can also produce synchronized speech or sound effects. This means the results it produces can seem nearly indistinguishable from the real deal to the untrained eye.
Of course, there are telltale signs pointing to a synthetic video’s AI origins if you look closely but you can expect those minor imperfections to be gone sooner rather than later. Google has already dispatched numerous fixes to Veo 3 since its debut at I/O, including a recent one that prevents glitchy subtitle-like text from appearing.
To generate a video using Veo 3, you will need a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription. That will set you back a minimum of $20 per month, to speak nothing of the higher tier that costs at an eye-watering $250 each month. And even then, you only get a limited amount of generation credits per month.
Google Veo 3 is expensive, and extremely limited, but it's still very capable.
The list of Veo 3 limitations doesn’t end there. You can only generate extremely short videos at the moment — no longer than eight seconds each. That said, Google Flow, an experimental AI filmmaking tool, allows you to chain multiple Veo-generated clips together to create a longer video. Length aside, the other big limitation is that you can only generate 720p videos with Veo 3 at the moment.
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