“Google Flow: 100 Million Videos and Still No Oscar”
“Hey, what the helly are you looking at now Google?”
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Aug 26, 2025
“Google Flow: 100 Million Videos and Still No Oscar”
The Setup
Google just dropped a flex so hard it cracked the timeline: over 100 million AI-generated videos created through its filmmaker tool, Flow. That’s not a typo. That’s a content tsunami. And it’s not just slideshow junk—Flow’s packing Veo 3, a model that syncs visuals with AI-generated audio, ambient sound, dialogue, and even Foley effects. You want a Yeti sipping espresso while narrating a breakup? Flow’s got you.
The Tech Behind the Smoke
Flow isn’t your grandma’s slideshow app. It’s a Frankenstein’s monster of Google’s best AI models:
· Imagen for visuals
· Veo 3 for synced audio
· Gemini for prompt crafting (though not natively integrated yet)
· A Premiere Pro-lite timeline for scene stitching
· “Ingredients-to-video” mode that lets you upload a jacket, a dude, and a mountain—and Flow animates the whole thing
Consistency is the holy grail here. No more hair-color roulette or teleporting props. Flow locks down visual identity across scenes like a paranoid continuity editor.
The Price of Entry
Flow lives inside Google Labs’ AI Test Kitchen, and it ain’t free.
· $20/month Pro Plan
· $250/month Ultra Plan (discounted to $125 for 3 months)
That’s steep unless you’re cranking out content like a caffeinated TikTok cult.
The Smoke Alarm
Google’s still dodging lawsuits over how its AI is trained. Artists are mad. Publishers are mad. And Gemini once generated Nazi soldiers with suspicious melanin levels (What The Helly?). So yeah, the ethics convo is still burning.
Original Source:“Google's AI Filmmaker Program Flow Helped Creators Make 100 Million Videos” (Story by Katelyn Chedraoui)
SmokingDead’s Final Thoughts:
Flow is the new studio exec: fast, cheap, and doesn’t ask for royalties. But it’s also a mirror—reflecting our thirst for infinite content and our fear of being replaced by a prompt. It’s not just democratizing creation. It’s industrializing it.
So if you’re still storyboarding with sticky notes and Adobe tears, Flow’s already lapped you. The future isn’t coming. It’s rendering. B*tch!
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