This weekend in Generative Media

Artists' AI stragegy; Getty's "socially responsible" AI; Who indemnifies IP lawsuits?

• Artists across industries are strategizing together around AI concerns (TechCrunch)

• Getty Images built a “socially responsible” AI tool that rewards artists (Ars Technica)

• Some gen AI vendors say they’ll defend customers from IP lawsuits. Others, not so much (TechCrunch)

• Epik App’s AI ’90s Yearbook Photo Trend is Taking Over The Internet (PetaPixel)

• ControlNet Models for SDXL are now available in Automatic1111 (Geeky Gadgets)

• How Disney Packed Big Emotion Into a Little Robot Melding animation and reinforcement learning for free-ranging emotive performances (IEEE Spectrum)

• DiffPoseTalk: Speech-Driven Stylistic 3D Facial Animation and Head Pose Generation via Diffusion Models (project page)

• 🔥Meshy Image to 3D has achieved a major breakthrough once again! We've boosted the generation speed by 20x, making it effortless to obtain a 3D model in just about 60 seconds. (X)

• Vizcom's sketch to image is one of the better options. It stays surprisingly close to the sketch I provide it with. Then from there, I took the generated image through Pika Lab's image to video. (X)

• Install & Setup video for ComfyUI w/ Animatediff Prompt Travel (X)

• uhh there's a VTuber powered by Open Interpreter you can chat with over YouTube Live (X)

• It won't generate an image of someone giving the finger, but this is ok. (X) [NSFW, or at least mildly disturbing?!]