This weekend in Generative Media

Writers strike ends after AI impasse; AI disinfo targets kids; Getty's licensed genAI

• Writers strike negotiations hung up on language over AI, sources say (NBC News)

• On Day 146, Screenwriters Reach Deal With Studios to End Their Strike. (New York Times) “The last sticking point between the Writers Guild and studios involved artificial intelligence. On Saturday, lawyers for the entertainment companies came up with language — a couple paragraphs inside a contract that runs hundreds of pages — that addressed a guild concern about A.I. and old scripts that studios own. The sides spent several hours on Sunday making additional tweaks.”

• AI used to target kids with disinformation (BBC)

• Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images (The Verge)

• AI may be news reporting’s future. So far, it’s been an embarrassment. (Washington Post)

• Amazon Restricts Authors to Self-Publishing Three Books a Day, a Totally Human Amount (Gizmodo)

• Generative AI Is Breathing New Life Into Classic Computer Games (Forbes)

• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein can illuminate the debate over generative AI (Big Think)

• How to AI: Three approaches on deploying generative AI for brands and corporations (Rei Inamoto)

• Epic Games Offers to Support all Generative AI Titles, in direct competition with Steam's recent crackdown. (AI and Games)

• The collective of 50 talented artists will collaborate to craft an innovative full-length experimental film. (Our T2 Remake)

• Introducing Bestever: Designed to create brilliant marketing visuals in minutes. Generate hundreds of videos and image assets with a click of a button. (bestever.ai)

• IP-Adapter: Text Compatible Image Prompt Adapter for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models (project page)

• A Latent Space of Stochastic Diffusion Models for Zero-Shot Image Editing and Guidance (project page)

• FlowCam: Training Generalizable 3D Radiance Fields without Camera Poses via Pixel-Aligned Scene Flow (project page)

• With this prompt, you can get GPT-4 to emulate any writing style you want. (X)

• The new single "End Of Terrain." is out today on all streaming/download platforms 🌌 Video by AI artist Glenn Marshall. (X)

• The Dandy Warhols new music video all made w Runway. “Apparently A.I. felt that what his track is about is a macabre alien hot cave dance party/’60s mini motorcycle rally, and it pretty much nailed it” (X)

• My dystopian vision of an AI-powered future is that LLMs drives down the cost of generating long text even further, and the only way for readers to keep up is to use LLMs to summarize. (X)