Technology May 23, 2026 · 1 min read

Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild

Last year I deepfaked my kid's stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a Gemini ad Google was running, and I never showed the videos of Buddy the deer on his adventures to my four-year-old. […]

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The Verge
by Allison Johnson
Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild
Still from an AI-generated video of a stuffed deer white water rafting
Just a stuffed deer having the time of his life. | Image: Gemini / The Verge

Last year I deepfaked my kid's stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation.

It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a Gemini ad Google was running, and I never showed the videos of Buddy the deer on his adventures to my four-year-old. But it was a revealing exercise that made me think a lot about the difference between some harmless fun with generative AI and full-on slop. Maybe that Venn diagram is a perfect circle! Maybe not. But what I know for sure is that the tools to make realistic videos are surprisingly good, requiring surprisingly little effort and know-how. And that trend is c …

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