Google is experimenting with allowing AI to generate a background image for your next Meet video call.
As PC World reports, this new feature is only available to Google's trusted set of testers in the Workspace Labs program (for now). However, the support document for the feature is publicly viewable.
Currently, AI-generated backgrounds only work on desktop, but are easy to create by simply selecting a meeting and then at the bottom right of your Meet self view click "Apply visual effects." Workspace Labs testers will see an option to "Generate a background."
The support document states that Meet can be prompted to "create background images using artificial intelligence" and gives the example of asking for "an illustration of a magical forest" or a spaceship cockpit, There's also filters and style options, for example, photography, sci-fi, fantasy, 3D animation, illustration, and monochrome are listed.
Depending on how good these generated backgrounds look, it could act as an extra incentive to attend meetings—simply to see what new imagery other attendees have asked for.