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Meta Make-A-Video: Text-to-Video AI System
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A demonstration of Meta's text-to-video AI capability, relevant to AI safety discussions around synthetic media risks, capability thresholds, and the governance challenges posed by increasingly realistic generative AI systems.
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Summary
Meta's Make-A-Video is an AI system that generates short video clips from text descriptions, images, or existing videos. It extends text-to-image generation techniques into the temporal domain, enabling creation of realistic and imaginative video content from natural language prompts. The system represents a significant capability milestone in generative AI for multimedia content.
Key Points
- •Generates short video clips directly from text prompts using deep learning models trained on image-text pairs and unlabeled video data
- •Demonstrates rapid capability advancement in generative AI, extending text-to-image success (e.g., DALL-E, Stable Diffusion) to video synthesis
- •Raises concerns about deepfakes, synthetic media misuse, and the accelerating pace of AI-generated content capabilities
- •Represents a threshold moment where AI-generated video becomes accessible and convincing enough to blur lines with real footage
- •Highlights the need for AI governance frameworks addressing synthetic media, watermarking, and provenance verification
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Make-A-Video
Make-A-Video is a state-of-the-art AI system that generates videos from text.
[Read research paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14792)
## Make-A-Video
Make-A-Video research builds on the recent progress made in text-to-image generation technology built to enable text-to-video generation. The system uses images with descriptions to learn what the world looks like and how it is often described. It also uses unlabeled videos to learn how the world moves. With this data, Make-A-Video lets you bring your imagination to life by generating whimsical, one-of-a-kind videos with just a few words or lines of text.

A dog wearing a Superhero outfit with red cape flying through the sky
## Make-A-Video with text
Bring your imagination to life and create one-of-a-kind videos
Surreal
Realistic
Stylized
A teddy bear painting a portrait

Robot dancing in times square

Cat watching TV with a remote in hand

A fluffy baby sloth with an orange knitted hat trying to figure out a laptop close up highly detailed studio lighting screen reflecting in its eye

An artists brush painting on a canvas close up

Clown fish swimming through the coral reef

A young couple walking in a heavy rain

Horse drinking water

Hyper-realistic spaceship landing on mars

An oil painting of a couple in formal evening wear going home get caught in a heavy downpour with umbrellas

There is a table by a window with sunlight streaming through illuminating a pile of books

An emoji of a baby panda wearing a red hat, blue gloves, green shirt, and blue pants


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## From static to magic
Add motion to a single image or fill-in the in-between motion to two images.
Single image
Pair of images
Input image
Input images





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