Gemini Made This Hyperrealistic Deepfake Video of Me in Just a Few Minutes

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During its big I/O 2026 keynote, Google announced Gemini Omni, an AI model that can generate videos from, well, just about anything. In the weeks since the announcement, paid subscribers have been able to use a mix of text, images, documents, and video clips to generate new AI videos. Now, Google is rolling out a new Omni feature, that lets you generate hyperrealistic avatars of yourself. It's limited to videos right now (no AI profile pictures yet), but it does a surprisingly good job of creating a talking-head video with only a couple of reference selfies—surpassing what the short-lived Sora app accomplished. With Omni, Google has unleashed a tool that lets you create deepfake videos of yourself (and only yourself) in mere minutes. Are we ready for it?

You can create your own deepfake with Gemini Omni today

Thankfully, you can't take a selfie and turn it into a deepfake video. You need to go through a verification process from Google that requires scanning your face. Once you have access to this Omni feature, go to the Gemini sidebar and tap on Videos. You'll see a pop-up here to create your own avatar. If you don't see it, click the Plus button from the Gemini prompt box, then tap Avatar. Gemini will direct you to a Google site to scan your face. Here, you take a couple of selfies and move your face from side to side. Then, you say a couple of numbers out loud, and you're done. You don't even have to speak any words or sentences. Once the process is done, the avatar is ready, and you can go back to Gemini.

Now, back in the "Videos" section, type "@[your name]" to use your own avatar in your videos. Generating a video takes a couple of minutes, and you'll get a notification when it's ready. You can play the video in the app, save it to your gallery, or share it via a link or with the video file itself. There are some further limitations here: Gemini's new avatar feature is only available AI Pro or AI Ultra subscribers using personal accounts. In addition, the feature is limited to users 18 or older, and it's not available in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom. Right now, it can only generate audio in English. Each generation carries an obvious Gemini watermark, but is also coded with SynthID, Google's new industry standard for subtly watermarking AI videos and images using metadata that can be tracked even if the video is cropped.

Would you deepfake yourself?

After playing around with this feature all day and generating a series of videos, it's clear that this tool is shockingly good. We are not prepared for an era in which deepfake technologies are this prevalent and easy to access. You can see that in the example below: I asked Gemini to generate a video of me reviewing the iPhone 17 Pro, and requested that it include me saying a specific sentence. It did that.

Of course, there are limitations, and I can find plenty of faults as well. I asked for a review of the iPhone 17 Pro, but the video used an iPhone 16 Pro. At one point, something spontaneously appears above one of the many headphones in the background. And while the audio sounds like my real voice, there's no cadence to it. There's no personality, just a monotone delivery. And that extends to the videos themselves. It's me, a human, saying things, but the video feels quite lifeless. It's too clean, and too sharp, and my hair doesn't always look that good. If you know what to look out for, it's not necessarily difficult to tell that this is ultimately an AI deepfake (if the Gemini watermark and the AI label on YouTube didn't give it away). But the question is, how long will that be true for? And who will look deeply enough?

Videos are limited to 10 seconds right now, and you can't edit them, or make any changes, so the potential for abuse here is still quite small. That said, according to Google's announcements, they are currently gathering feedback. The company says, "in terms of editing videos to change audio and speech, we are still working to test this and better understand how we can bring this capability to users responsibly," so there's a possibility of an interactive editing interface down the line. Soon enough, users might place themselves in videos they can adjust to their exact specifications before sending them out into the wider internet. We might not be ready for that.