Last week in Generative Media

Rubio impostor uses AI voice; AI wears down democracy; AI backlash grows stronger

News and Opinion

• A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials (Washington Post)

• A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy (New York Times)

• The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger (Wired)

• Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos (The Verge)

• MrBeast removes YouTube AI tool after backlash (BBC)

• Hollywood’s pivot to AI video has a prompting problem (The Verge)

• My Keynote at AI on the Lot (Doug Shapiro on Substack)

• Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers (Literary Hub)

• Shit’s Gonna Get So Fucking Weird and Terrible (Uncertain Eric on Substack)

• Runway is going to let people generate video games with AI (The Verge)

• Google prepares interactive Storybook experience for Gemini users (Testing Catalog)

Software

• SeedEdit 3.0 is an image editing model independently developed by ByteDance. It excels in accurately following editing instructions and effectively preserving image content, especially excelling in handling real images (fal.ai)

• Google’s Doppl app took off my socks (The Verge)

• Hi3DGen: High-fidelity 3D Geometry Generation from Images via Normal Bridging (HuggingFace)

Research

• 3DGH: 3D Head Generation with Composable Hair and Face (project page)

• Diffusion Tree Sampling: Scalable inference-time alignment of diffusion models (project page)

• SimpleGVR: A Simple Baseline for Latent-Cascaded Video Super-Resolution (project page)