Google rolls out Gemini Avatar feature that creates AI-generated digital clones of users
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Adamya Sharma
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Summary
Google is rolling out Gemini's new Avatar feature to paid subscribers, which creates a digital clone of users by scanning their face and voice through a phone camera. The setup process involves moving one's head and reading numbers aloud, after which Google generates a synthetic video of the user speaking content they never actually recorded. The feature has an uncanny, unsettling quality that blurs the line between AI demo and realistic digital replication.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledThere's a moment during Gemini's new Avatar setup process when things suddenly stop feeling like a fun AI demo and become extremely uncanny.
You sit there staring into your phone's camera while Gemini asks you to slowly move your head from side to side and read out random numbers.
A few seconds later, Google spits out a digital version of you, complete with your face and your voice.
Then you watch it speak in videos you never actually recorded.
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