AI video editing coming to Instagram next year, using text prompts

AI video editing based on text prompts is coming to Instagram next year, with the company’s head showing off the ability to do things like change your clothing and video background, as well as some funkier stuff like adding animated characters.

The company had earlier shown a demo video (below) of completely AI-generated video, stating that it was just a research project, but it seems the first practical application of the tech is arriving sooner than expected …

Earlier this year, Meta previewed an AI video editing and creation tool known as Movie Gen. This was a brief showreel of video generated by AI using nothing more than text prompts by the user.

The company said then that Movie Gen was “just research,” giving the impression that it wouldn’t be available to users for some considerable time. You can the short demo video here:

But while creating AI video out of nothing but text may be further down the line, Instagram …