AI Video Killed the Video Star

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Google’s new AI video tool Veo 3 looks freakishly real, but it might take Hollywood to fully harness its power. This episode was produced by Gabrielle Berbey and Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Avishay Artsy, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Help us plan for the future of Today, Explained by filling out a brief survey: ⁠voxmedia.com/survey⁠. Thank you! Image of Wall Street Journal columnist Jonna Stern and her robot from an AI-generated video. Credit WSJ. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A few weeks ago, Google dropped V-O-3, generative AI video, but now with generative AI sound to go with it.
0:08.5	This is video from V-O-3.
0:10.4	What do you think about the idea that we're just a bunch of prompts?
0:12.9	If I'm generated from a prompt, how come I don't have six fingers?
0:16.2	So is this?
0:17.5	About to do the first plunge into an active volcano.
0:22.6	Let's send it. And this. Breaking news do the first plunge into an active volcano. Let's send it. And this.
0:23.6	Breaking news, the Secretary of Defense Pete Heg-Seth has died after drinking an entire
0:28.6	leader of vodka on a dare by RFK.
0:31.6	But how are the reviews?
0:34.6	A Slopmonger's Dream, says The Verge.
0:36.6	It might actually take my job, says YouTuber Matthew Berman.
0:41.3	The world is not ready, says Mashable.
0:44.7	We're so cooked, says thousands of people on social media.
0:50.1	But are we?
0:51.1	Maybe not.
0:52.1	That's our take today explained.
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