Despite Google's guardrails, Veo 3 users are generating realistic clips of news, disasters, and fictional events, some with dialogue not included in the prompt

Cursed AI-generated videos come with very convincing audio now. … Even at first glance, there's something off about the body on the street.

The Verge 2025-05-25 Allison Johnson

Context & Ripple Effects

Google’s video work had already progressed from lifelike speech-and-gesture generation from a photo and audio clip to the business launch of Veo as a high-quality cinematic video tool. This report tests the practical boundary of that capability: convincing output can be applied to events that audiences would ordinarily treat as documentary evidence.

The issue is not merely visual realism. Generated disaster and news-like footage paired with plausible audio or unprompted dialogue raises the stakes for Google’s safeguards because the result can carry the cues viewers use to judge a clip’s authenticity.

First-order effects

Veo 3 users can produce realistic depictions of news and disasters despite Google’s guardrails, exposing a gap between the model’s intended controls and its observed use.
Convincing generated audio and dialogue make individual clips harder for viewers to dismiss using visual anomalies alone.

Second-order effects

Publishers, platforms, and users who encounter purported event footage face a higher verification burden, particularly when a clip’s audio appears to corroborate its visuals.
Google faces pressure to make its controls more effective for event-like and public-harm scenarios, rather than treating generation quality and safety as separable product concerns.

Third-order effects

If realistic audiovisual generation becomes broadly accessible while controls remain porous, trust in unverified video may shift from default acceptance toward provenance-based verification.
The market is moving toward a synthetic-media control layer in which generation tools, distributors, and verification systems must jointly establish how event footage is identified and handled.

The trend: This is one data point in the shift from AI video as a creative-production tool to a public-information integrity challenge.

Discussion

@deanalan5 Dean Alan on bluesky
This will only become more common. [embedded post]
@eighthdayarts @eighthdayarts on bluesky
“some with dialogue not included in the prompt.” [embedded post]
@shoq @shoq on bluesky
It was obvious years ago we'd need HARSH LAWS requiring digital watermarking for ALL AI generated images. To not have them is a cultural suicide second only to Trumpism. — Google's New Video-Generating AI May Be the End of Reality as We Know It
@shoq @shoq on bluesky
In 2020 I was warning that deep fakes would be the greatest threat to humanity since the invention of war. 5 years later, it seems I understated the case. — Google's New Video-Generating AI May Be the End of Reality as We Know It
@iainaire Iain Aire on bluesky
Well the technology has arrived that can turn your text/stories into a realistic video/movie. What now for books or graphic novels? futurism.com/google-ai-vi... #Author #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #BlueSky #BookSky #WritersNetwork #WritingAndBooks #IndieAuthor #Veo3 #Sel…
@hashemghaili Hashem Al-Ghaili on x
I did more tests with Google's #Veo3. Imagine if AI characters became aware they were living in a simulation! [video]
@nmatares Nick Matarese on x
Let's check out that prompt adherence... “The camera follows a dachshund running through a living room and out of an open front door and onto a porch. It stands on the top stair overlooking the neighborhood as an ice cream truck drives by.” - #Veo3 [video]
@thereelrobot Dale Wiliams on x
This is VEO 3 — blowing my mind with its 3D animation. I made NO TIME TO FETCH in Google Flow in just a few hours Stay for the title sequence after the chase #Veo3 @GoogleLabs @GoogleDeepMind [video]
@levie Aaron Levie on x
Veo 3 is truly insane. This latest wave of AI is going to fundamentally accelerate the creation of entertainment. Creating awesome content will still require tremendous creativity and a long tail of complex work, but it will become available to way more people. [video]
@laszlogaal_ László Gaál on x
Before you ask: yes, everything is AI here. The video and sound both coming from a single text prompt using #Veo3 by @GoogleDeepMind .Whoever is cooking the model, let him cook! Congrats @Totemko and the team for the Google I/O live stream and the new Veo site! [video]
@levie Aaron Levie on x
Crazy that this is possible with AI. This will mean you can test new ideas instantly, accelerate the production cycle, generate scenes that would've been cost prohibitive before, and more. The leverage you now have as a creator is incredible. [video]
@enric_corona Enric Corona on x
Check out Veo 3, now generating sound effects and dialogues! #veo3 [video]
@moroccomf @moroccomf on x
Donald Trump as a baby #Veo3 [video]
@babaeizadeh @babaeizadeh on x
#Veo3 further blurs the lines between reality and imagination with audio, stronger text adherence, and richer visual details. [video]
@rubenevillegas Ruben Villegas on x
I guess it's really warm there #veo3 [video]
@mattvidpro @mattvidpro on x
Bigfoot vloggin #veo3 [video]
@medhini_n Medhini Narasimhan on x
Physics physics physics! #veo3 [video]
@venturetwins Justine Moore on x
Live action Ratatouille, thanks to #Veo3 [video]
@ri5hitripathi Rishi on x
I just tested Google's #Veo3 AI and it is insane! 🤯 [video]
@techhalla @techhalla on x
It took me 10 minutes to create these Viral Videos with AI. People don't believe it... 🤷 I'm dropping the key steps, prompts, and tools in this thread, then it's up to you 🧵👇 [video]
@techhalla @techhalla on x
Veo3 is an absolute beast! Here are 11 wild examples and the prompts I used for each one 🧵👇🏻 (Coming soon to Freepik) 1. A squirrel on wingsuit flying over Monument Valley [video]
@smmania123 @smmania123 on x
#Veo3 There goes dreams of AI not getting to the point of true realism anytime soon [video]
@bitfalls @bitfalls on x
Wow, #Veo3 is amazing. I told it something outrageous: “Early 2000s footage of an australian goth pianist making a whimsical song about God in front of an orchestra” It absolutely nailed it! [video]
@petercoffin Peter Coffin on x
“MEN” A #Veo3 short with typical behaviors from men. Men all do these things! Right, ladies? [video]
@dakotahermes Dakota Hermes on x
ad creatives are about to go absolutely wild #Veo3 [video]
@rifewithkaiju Rife on x
#veo3 The physics here is absolutely incredible. look at the way this sign breaks and wobbles. [video]
@smit00000 @smit00000 on x
#Veo3 Pharmaceutical Ad #pharmaceuticals [video]
@sanketvmehta Sanket Vaibhav Mehta, Ph.D. on x
The future of video is brewing!🤯Masala chai brought to life by #Veo3 @GeminiApp #GoogleIO [video]
@safereboot @safereboot on x
This is like the San Junipero episode from Black Mirror #veo3 [video]
@rubenevillegas Ruben Villegas on x
Nice haircut :D #veo3 [video]
@joshelman Josh Elman on x
This is the uncanny valley we are in now. A must watch video. Soon we will just be pods in the Matrix. I am taking the red pill 💊
@hashemghaili Hashem Al-Ghaili on x
Prompt Theory (Made with Veo 3) What if AI-generated characters refused to believe they were AI-generated? [video]
@venturetwins Justine Moore on x
ASMR creators marked “not safe” from AI I've run dozens of #Veo3 prompts today, and this might be my most impressive output yet - the audio is insane. [video]
@honestblogging Justin on x
A college professor doing a class on Gen Z slang and the video pans over to all the boomers taking notes and seeming super interested #veo3 [video]
@techhalla @techhalla on x
Less than 24 hours since Google dropped Veo3 and people are already creating wild stuff! 13 insane examples 🧵👇 1. A giraffe riding a bike in NYC [video]
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r/interestingasfuck r on reddit
All these videos are ai generated audio included. I'm scared of the future
r/singularity r on reddit
Cinema, stars, movies, tv... All cooked, lol. - Veo3 is insane...
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