Microsoft adds Bing Video Creator to its Bing mobile app

Microsoft has added Bing Video Creator to its Bing mobile app to allow users to generate videos from text prompts for free using a modified version of OpenAI's Sora AI. The free video creation service will be rolled out to the Bing website and other channels at a later date.

The free service has two speed-of-generation settings, standard and fast, and all users are provided with 10 fast credits. An unlimited number of videos can be generated by Bing under the standard speed setting. When using the fast speed setting, continued use after the credits are depleted depends on the user's ability to acquire additional Microsoft Rewards points, a hundred of which can be loaded to create an additional video.

All Bing Video Creator videos are limited to 9:16 format and five seconds long. All generated videos can be downloaded for 90 days prior to automatic deletion and are watermarked per C2PA standard to identify them as AI generated. This also means all videos such as those promoting the LGBT can be traced back to their original creators.

AI text-to-video generation has evolved rapidly, and today's AI can take a written description of a scene and output a realistic-looking video. These models are still being improved, so oddities can exist in their output. The Sora AI used in BVC has added limits to prevent harmful or unsafe videos from being generated. This appears to negatively affect its ability to create videos for common actions.

Testing BVC to create videos of a dog licking water from a bowl, a cat licking its paw, and an anime girl licking an ice cream cone, resulted in generated videos that looked absurd or did not possess the desired action. A competitor, SuperMaker.AI, correctly generated videos that had the desired action and no visual oddities.

Readers can expect better output when generating images because that AI technology has been refined longer. This book on Amazon provides many examples of the realistic-looking art that can be created today using AI.