This weekend in Generative Media

Oscars consider AI disclosure; AI for storytelling at Sundance; Superbowl ads for AI

News and Opinion

• Oscars Consider Requiring Films to Disclose AI Use After ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Emilia Pérez’ Controversies (Variety)

• Sundance Directors and Producers on How AI Opens New Storytelling Avenues (IndieWire)

• Inside OpenAI’s $14 million Super Bowl debut (The Verge)

• Google’s AI Super Bowl Ad Fiasco Somehow Gets Worse (Gizmodo)

• 'It's a genie out of the bottle': How AI is impacting graphic design (Creative Bloq)

• Meta launches new program to improve speech and translation AI (TechCrunch)

• Meet Ivo, The Legal AI That Will Review Your Contracts (Forbes)

• What Is AI Distillation? And what does it mean if DeepSeek did it? (The Atlantic)

• Bye, Bye Algorithm. Hello, Human Tastemaker (Aurora)

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed (TechCrunch)

• Looking Ahead to the AI Action Summit: Seizing the AI Opportunity (Adobe blog)

Software

• Boring Reality LoRA just dropped for HunyuanVideo A fine-tune that lead not to cinematic shots, but to something that could've come out of your phone (X)

• Browser Use UI can do DeepResearch. Repo is 100% open source ↓ (X)

• Replit launches the first software creation Agent on iOS and Android (Replit blog)

Research

• DINO-Foresight: Looking into the Future with DINO (arXiv)

• ShapeShifter: 3D Variations Using Multiscale and Sparse Point-Voxel Diffusion (arXiv)

• MaintaAvatar: A Maintainable Avatar Based on Neural Radiance Fields by Continual Learning (arXiv)

Misc

• A “10x engineer” — a widely accepted concept in tech — purportedly has 10 times the impact of the average engineer. But we don’t seem to have 10x marketers, 10x recruiters, or 10x financial analysts. As more jobs become AI enabled, I think this will change, and there will be a lot more “10x professionals.” (Andrew Ng, DeepLearning.ai)

• Let's make Gladiator 3 for 3M instead of 300M! (X)