This weekend in Generative Media

State Dept. AI to revoke visas; Sony dips toes in AI hell world; Pinterest labels genAI

News and Opinion

• Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas" (Axios)

• Leaked Footage Reveals Sony Dipping Its Toes into AI Hell World and, Nope, We’re Still Not Interested (Vice)

• Pinterest Begins Labeling Generative AI Content (Social Media Today)

• Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas" (Axios)

• ‘It’s happening fast’ – creative workers and professionals share their fears and hopes about the rise of AI (The Guardian)

• AI Coding Fantasy meets Pac-Man (Gary Marcus on Substack)

Software

• Fine-tune & Run Gemma 3 (unsloth.ai)

• Streamline your workflow with studio-quality AI audio tools (kits.ai)

• The Gemini API and AI Studio support YouTube URLs as a file data Part. You can include a YouTube URL with a prompt asking the model to summarize, translate, or otherwise interact with the video content. (Google)

Research

• ReCamMaster: Camera-Controlled Generative Rendering from A Single Video (project page)

• Reangle-A-Video: 4D Video Generation as Video-to-Video Translation (project page)

• Infinite-Resolution Integral Noise Warping for Diffusion Models (project page)

• Thera: Aliasing-Free Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution with Neural Heat Fields (project page)

• VideoPainter: Any-length Video Inpainting and Editing with Plug-and-Play Context Control (project page)

• 4D LangSplat: 4D Language Gaussian Splatting via Multimodal Large Language Models (project page)

• GroomLight: Hybrid Inverse Rendering for Relightable Human Hair Appearance Modeling (project page)

• Long Context Tuning for Video Generation (project page)

• SANA-Sprint: One-Step Diffusion with Continuous-Time Consistency Distillation (arXiv)

Misc

• Vibecoding Vibesculpting (in 3D) (X)

• The updated Google Deep Research is really good. It is much more obviously smart and agentic in its research progression, while still casting the widest net of any of the Deep Research tools. It is becoming clear that more powerful models leads to better agents for research. (X)

• The steamboat willie lora by Benjamin Paine is indeed glorious. (X)