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Google's Veo 3 videos go viral: From stand-up comedy to Will Smith eating spaghetti, netizens face an existential crisis

Google's Veo 3 videos go viral: From stand-up comedy to Will Smith eating spaghetti, netizens face an existential crisis

Time of India24-05-2025
Google announced an impressive number of artificial intelligence (AI) innovations at I/O 2025 on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. With the new AI innovations, they made it clearer than that how powerful the AI firm has become. Not only this, but Veo 3, the new content generation, Google is turning the wild ideas into jaw-dropping videos with nothing but a few prompts and a dash of digital magic.
However, these kinds of innovations are nothing new in the AI space, and there is a slew of impressive AI-generated content, including realistic photos, incredible music, and videos that almost look professionally shot.
But don't be shocked if we say that something more interesting and promising is being launched in the AI space. Yes, some videos created by Veo 3 are going viral on social media and have almost broken the internet.
Say goodbye to the silent era of video generation: Introducing Veo 3 — with native audio generation. 🗣️Quality is up from Veo 2, and now you can add dialogue between characters, sound effects and background noise. Veo 3 is available now in the @GeminiApp for Google AI Ultra… pic.twitter.com/7rcXeBslyU
Veo 3 doesn't just generate video; it creates audio as well
Since the day Google announced its AI innovations, social media has been flooded with videos made with Veo 3 that netizens are in denial about believing. Among all the videos, one video is of a man doing a stand-up comedy show in a small venue and telling a joke, which is actually a prompt. (However, the authenticity of the video is not confirmed, shared by an X user @MrBahaudin.)
Well, the video quickly went viral, and netizens are stunned by it.
NO WAY. It did it. And, was that, actually funny?Prompt:> a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)#veo3 pic.twitter.com/VIraD4sPjZ
Well, this is not the only one; there is another where actor Will Smith is seen eating spaghetti, which looks as real as it can.
Just got access to Veo 3 and the first thing I did was try the Will Smith spaghetti test. SOUND ON pic.twitter.com/y0CiZwNxgM
In these videos, Veo 3 has created audio to match the action in the scenes, including the background noise and dialogue. It indicates that it did a great job of maintaining character, location, and object consistency from scene to scene.
Veo 3's AI prompts video stuns the internet
Well, there are plenty of such clips, which have blown the minds of netizens on the internet. One of the videos that surfaced on Instagram's page called Evolving AI is a compilation of all the videos by @hashem.alghaili.
It is a hilarious and thought-provoking video. Created by using Google's Veo 3 AI video model, AI-generated characters challenge the very idea of their existence.
Netizens looked cooked in the comment section, and one said, "We are cooked 😄 well done Google!"
"Future generations won't believe real historical events ever happened, even if it was filmed. The universal truths that we all agree on will be no more. Nothing in history nor the present will ever be certain again," another commented.
"5⭐️Better than 9 out of 10 "made for Netflix" films. But, maybe that's just the prompt talking ."
"I feel insecure and starting to have existential questions"
"This is beyond trippy man, can you imagine five years from now??? It'll be a completely different world"
While one said, "You can tell this is fake because you feel nothing. No real human emotions coming thru these clips."
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