Gemini Avatar – Google is expanding Gemini’s Avatar feature to more paid subscribers. Using the Gemini app, users can create an AI clone of themselves with their face and voice via Google’s new Omni model, while Google embeds an invisible SynthID watermark in every generated
It starts like a typical setup screen in the Gemini app—until the guided prompts turn into something far more personal. You look into your phone’s camera while Gemini asks you to slowly move your head from side to side and read out random numbers. Then. within seconds. Google generates a digital version of you: your face and your voice. speaking in videos you never recorded.
Google is now rolling out Gemini’s new Avatar feature more widely to paid subscribers in the Gemini app. months after it was first spotted during an APK teardown back in March. The goal is simple: create an AI-generated clone of yourself using your own appearance and voice. powered by Google’s new Omni model.
To get started, the feature is available inside the Gemini app under Settings > Avatar. Once your avatar is set up. you can bring it into Gemini chats by typing commands like @me or @your user name. The setup itself isn’t described as elaborate. You record your face and voice while following a guided enrollment process: you’re asked to look into the camera. move your head. and read specific numbers aloud so the system can map your facial structure and your voice.
In use, the resemblance can feel unnervingly real. The facial movements and tone of voice are described as extremely realistic—polished rather than cartoonish—meaning the avatar could plausibly fool people who don’t know you well, even if you can tell it’s AI.
Google’s rollout also comes with guardrails aimed at the obvious misuse risks of cloning someone’s likeness. Users must be at least 18 years old to access Avatar creation. The account owner also has to be physically present during the setup process.
There’s another control built into the output itself: every generated video includes an invisible SynthID watermark permanently embedded into the file. Google says people can verify whether a clip was AI-generated by checking it in Chrome or through Google Search tools.
For now, Gemini Avatar is moving beyond its early visibility and into broader use—putting a more lifelike “you” in users’ hands, with the company betting that age gating, in-person enrollment, and watermark-based verification can keep the feature from sliding too far into the wrong kind of reality.
Google Gemini Avatar feature Omni model AI clone SynthID watermark AI video privacy safeguards paid subscribers
So it’s basically you talking to yourself… cool I guess.
I don’t get why this is “guardrailed” when someone’s gonna clone someone anyway. The watermark thing sounds like one of those things nobody checks until it’s too late. Also “read random numbers”?? that’s weird.
Wait is this the one where they can make you say stuff you didn’t say? Like I saw a clip on TikTok and it looked real but maybe it was just an edit. If it’s permanent watermarked, won’t people just download and reupload and then it’s gone?
This is going to mess with people’s heads. Like my cousin could get “cloned” and then everyone thinks she did it because she sounds the same. They say you have to be physically there during setup but like… how does that stop scammers later? Also Gemini already knows too much so this feels like the next step to me.