Last Week in Generative Media

Jobs are for Humans; AI makes us more innovative, New York Times vs. AI

• Jobs Are for Humans: Why ChatGPT hasn’t ignited the employment apocalypse that so many predicted. (Slate)

• There is now strong evidence that AI can help make us more innovative. (Ethan Mollick, One Useful Thing)

• The New York Times prohibits AI vendors from scraping its content without permission (Ars Technica) New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl (NPR)

• AI is coming for your audiobooks. You’re right to be worried. (Washington Post)

• AP Shares Guidelines Prohibiting Staff From Using AI to Write Publishable Content (Gizmodo)

• Adobe Express now has AI-powered features to take on Canva (The Verge)

• Artists complain of AI 'copyright infringement' on Adobe Stock (CreativeBloq)

• In the Battle Between Bots and Comedians, A.I. Is Killing (New York Times)

• Anti-Piracy Group Takes Massive AI Training Dataset 'Books3′ Offline (Gizmodo)

• Can’t lose what you never had: Claims about digital ownership and creation in the age of generative AI (Federal Trade Commission)

• Publishing scammers are using AI to scale their grifts (Vox)

• Moderation on a popular AI image generator can be easily circumvented to create images that drive conspiracy theories, new report finds (Business Insider)

• A new AI app lets users ‘text’ with Jesus. Some call it blasphemy. (Washington Post)

• Introducing Chat with YouTube, a browser extension that lets you chat with YouTube videos! (GitHub)

• CoDeF: Content Deformation Fields for Temporally Consistent Video Processing (arXiv) Examples on X.

• Dynamic 3D Gaussians: Tracking by Persistent Dynamic View Synthesis (project page)

• Inst-Inpaint: Instructing to Remove Objects with Diffusion Models (project page)

• DragNUWA is a video generation model that utilizes text, images, and trajectory as three essential control factors to facilitate highly controllable video generation (project page)

• Dual-Stream Diffusion Net for Text-to-Video Generation (arXiv)

• LDM3D by Intel… you can generate immersive 360-degree views from prompts (X)

• ControlNet Canny for SDXL 1.0 is out! (X)

• ControlNet "OpenPose" XL is released (X)

• How can social media ads using AI look like? Just like this! (X)

• PlayHT2.0 seems to actually carry a conversation like a human, use filler words, and express emotions – all in real-time. (X)

• Photoshop Generative Fill stars in a new FOXSports ad. 👀 #AdobeFirefly (X)