This weekend in Generative Media

New York's AI disaster bill; Chatbots refuse pro-ICE chants; AI screenplay helpers

News and Opinion

• New York passes a bill to prevent AI-fueled disasters (TechCrunch)

• I Asked AI to Create a Pro-ICE Chant. Google and Meta Did. ChatGPT Said No. (Gizmodo)

• Can AI Actually Help Write a Screenplay? One Skeptical Screenwriter Shares His Journey (IndieWire)

• Chinese Screenwriters Are Finding Ways to Use AI — Is Hollywood Ready to Rewrite the Script? (TheWrap)

• Google’s Veo 3 AI Slopfest Just Reached New Heights (Gizmodo)

• ‘For 90% of viewers, Veo 3 is already indiscernible from real, human content’: I talked to an AI deepfake expert about how we can avoid a future of AI control (TechRadar)

• Tech Startup Raises $24 Million to Replace Hollywood With AI Slop (Futurism)

• What Is Going On With Midjourney Video Ranking? (Elettra Fiumi on Substack)

• How to draft a will to avoid becoming an AI ghost—it’s not easy (Ars Technica)

Software

• One-Stop AI Video Editor Leverages Different Models to Transform Footage (PetaPixel)

• Cosmos DiffusionRenderer is a video diffusion framework for high-quality image and video de-lighting and re-lighting. (GitHub) It is a major update of our original DiffusionRenderer method, achieving significantly higher-quality results, powered by NVIDIA Cosmos and an improved data curation pipeline.

• Tencent Hunyuan3D-2.1 is a scalable 3D asset creation system that advances state-of-the-art 3D generation through two pivotal innovations: Fully Open-Source Framework and Physically-Based Rendering (PBR) Texture Synthesis. (GitHub)

• Google Photos Gives New AI Photo Editor To All — And It’s A Genius Move (Forbes)

Research

• Normalized Attention Guidance Universal Negative Guidance for Diffusion Models (project page)

• FrugalNeRF: Fast Convergence for Extreme Few-shot Novel View Synthesis without Learned Priors (project page)

• Self-Supervised Spatial Correspondence Across Modalities (project page)

• Dynamic View Synthesis as an Inverse Problem (project page)

• Latent Patched Efficient Diffusion Model For High Resolution Image Synthesis (CVPR Open Access)

Misc

• How we used generative media at I/O 2025 (Google Keyword blog)

• Behind “ANCESTRA:” combining Veo with live-action filmmaking (Google Keyword blog)