Deepfakes could get super advanced (and weird) thanks to these breakthroughs

If you picture a cape-clad dog soaring through the clouds or an astronaut riding a horse on Mars, you may think you're experiencing a fever dream. But these surreal images exist outside of a sleepy daze: You can pull them up on your computer right now. They were created by Meta's top-of-the-line algorithms that can turn any text into a (somewhat) realistic video. Last month, Meta used these surreal clips to introduce its Make-A-Video AI text-to-video generator to the world. Just days later, Google showed off not one but two AI video generators: Imagen Video and Phenaki. These models were designed to transform text descriptions into short video clips.