YouTube Announces AI-Enabled Editing Products for Video Creators

The new features from Google’s video site include a way to generate AI-created video for backgrounds and new video production tools

Among the new products YouTube announced Thursday is a tool called Dream Screen that uses generative AI to add video or image backgrounds to short-form videos.

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YouTube will roll out a slew of artificial-intelligence-powered features for creators, the latest effort from parent company Alphabet Inc. to incorporate generative AI — technology that can create and synthesize text, images, music and other media given simple prompts — into its most important products and services.

Among the new products YouTube announced Thursday is a tool called Dream Screen that uses generative AI to add video or image backgrounds to short-form videos, which the company calls Shorts. It also announced new AI-enabled production tools to help with editing both short- and long-form videos on its platform.