Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem
Rhiannon Williams
created: July 15, 2025, 2:40 p.m. | updated: July 18, 2025, 9:03 a.m.
Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs and Gemini, posted on X on June 9 that Google had developed fixes to reduce the gibberish text.
But over a month later, users are still logging issues with it in Google Labs’ Discord channel, demonstrating how difficult it can be to correct issues in major AI models.
Like its predecessors, Veo 3 is available to paying members of Google’s subscription tiers, which start at $249.99 a month.
“If you’re creating a scene with dialogue, up to 40% of its output has gibberish subtitles that make it unusable,” she says.
The Google Labs’ Discord support team has been telling users that subtitles can be triggered by speech, saying that they’re aware of the problem and are working to fix it.
5 months ago: MIT Technology Review