This weekend in Generative Media

Executive order on AI; AI-driven influencers from 1337; UMG says AI helps music biz

• Sweeping new Biden order aims to alter the AI landscape (Politico)

• Generative AI startup 1337 (Leet) is paying users to help create AI-driven influencers (TechCrunch)

• Universal Music CEO Slams “Merchants of Garbage” While Defending Artist Centric Streaming Payments. (Hollywood Reporter) Lucian Grainge also said recent deals with YouTube and Deezer embrace artificial intelligence tools that will “benefit not only UMG, but the entire music ecosystem.”

• People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality (Ars Technica)

• Study unveils vulnerabilities of watermarking AI generated content (Tech Xplore)

• The world's easiest-to-use design and ideation tool - powered by AI

  No design experience required! (UIzard)

• Introducing the world's first ever AI that can have full on 10-40 minute long phone calls that sound like a REAL human (Air) 100,000 sales and customer service reps at the tap of a button.

• LCM img2img demo (replicate.com)

• iNVS : Repurposing Diffusion Inpainters for Novel View Synthesis (SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, project page)

• Consistent-1-to-3: Consistent Image to 3D View Synthesis via Geometry-aware Diffusion Models (UIST 2023, project page)

• A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Principled Recaptioning Improves Image Generation (arXiv)

• Your Face In Any Movie! Easy/Free Video Faceswapping Is Here! (YouTube)

• Introducing Replay v0.2 with a new image-to-video mode. What’s new?

  1) Prompting with an image

  2) 3x longer AI video

  3) 2.7x higher resolution (X)

• By adding an IP adapter to the front end of AnimateDiff, I found it really ups the quality & allows for consistent styling. (X)