You can now remix other people’s YouTube Shorts using AI

Google has announced a new YouTube Shorts Remix feature that allows users to repurpose clips or even insert themselves into other people’s videos using… Gemini Omni. Now, at the bottom of the YouTube Short, when you click on the remix icon, you’ll see an option to “Reimagine.” Here, you can ask Gemini to turn a video into pixel art, an animated movie, or a found footage horror movie. But, beyond that, you can also change the contents, for example, by enlarging the heads, inserting actors in the background, dressing people in pirate costumes, or even putting yourself in the clip.

Creators can enable or disable the ability to reimagine videos. So, if you upload a short clip for your kids and you prefer (for obvious and understandable reasons) that people can’t manipulate it, you can turn off remixing. Google also says that shorts remixed through Omni will have a digital watermark and link to the original video.