By Allison Johnson
Publication Date: 2026-05-23 11:00:00
Last year I faked my child’s stuffed animal to make it look like his stuffed deer was on vacation.
It was an experiment to see if I could recreate the events depicted in a Gemini ad run by Google, and I never showed my four-year-old the videos of Buddy the deer on his adventures. But it was an eye-opening exercise that made me think a lot about the difference between harmless fun with generative AI and real fun. Maybe this Venn diagram is a perfect circle! Maybe not. What I do know for sure is that the tools for creating realistic videos are surprisingly good and require surprisingly little effort and know-how. And this trend continues in Gemini’s omni era.
Omni is a new family of generative models that will one day reportedly be able to transform any type of input – photo, video, text – into anything else. But for starters, it’s just about creating videos. Omni Flash is the first of these models that Google has released and is now available in the company’s AI video…
