A new year in Generative Media

AI boom tests copyright law; AI is coming for our birds; 10 ways AI will reshape art

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• Boom in A.I. Prompts a Test of Copyright Law (New York Times)

• A.I. Came for Our Jobs, Our Art, and Our Souls. Now It’s Coming for Our Birds. (Slate)

• 10 Predictions About Unexpected Ways A.I. Will Reshape Art (ArtNet)

• Opinion: A.I. Is the Future of Photography. Does That Mean Photography Is Dead? (New York Times)

• An Artist in Residence on A.I.’s Territory (New York Times)

• Things are about to get a lot worse for Generative AI (Gary Marcus on Substack)

• Google’s AI-powered game teaches you how to write image prompts (9to5Google)

• DreamGaussian4D: Generative 4D Gaussian Splatting (project page)

• Spacetime Gaussian Feature Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic View Synthesis (project page)

• LangSplat: 3D Language Gaussian Splatting (project page)

• DiffusionGAN3D: Boosting Text-guided 3D Generation and Domain Adaption by

  Combining 3D GANs and Diffusion Priors (project page)

• City-on-Web: Real-time Neural Rendering of Large-scale Scenes on the Web (project page)

• Compact Neural Graphics Primitives with Learned Hash Probing (project page)

• Unified-IO 2: Scaling Autoregressive Multimodal Models with Vision, Language, Audio, and Action (project page)

• I2V-Adapter: A General Image-to-Video Adapter for Video Diffusion Models (arXiv)

• peak internet: ai generated cctv footage of police arresting ppl for wearing huge boots (X)