YouTube Shorts now integrates Google’s Veo 3 AI video generator, letting users create up to eight‑second clips from simple text prompts directly within the mobile app. The tool produces customized motion, lighting, and native audio, supports animated or cinematic styles, and automatically tags each clip with an AI label and an invisible SynthID watermark. Veo 3 also offers green‑screen backgrounds for layering behind live performers, dramatically lowering the barrier to video creation while raising concerns about a potential surge of low‑quality AI content on the platform.
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