My Digital Double: Testing Google's Gemini Avatar
A WIRED writer tests Google's Gemini Avatar, creating a lifelike digital clone to star in two AI-generated clips (singing to a dinosaur in Dolores Park and surfing under the Golden Gate Bridge). The avatar, powered by Google's Omni video model and gated behind a $20/month AI Pro plan, is impressively photoreal yet uncanny, highlighting safety concerns around non-consensual deepfakes even as Google says it aims to prevent harm.