This weekend in Generative Media

States & OpenAI vs. AI election ads; Toonstar's AI Creators Studio; Nightshade launch

• State Legislators, Wary of Deceptive Election Ads, Tighten A.I. Rules (New York Times)

• OpenAI suspends developer behind Dean Phillips bot (Axios)

• Interactive Animation House Toonstar Launches AI Creators Studio On Back Of Parker James Series (Deadline)

• Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use (VentureBeat) Early attempts to use it are resulting in either no impact or models that generate BETTER images 🙃 (X)

• Opinion: AI is outrageous — and wonderful. It’s also prompting a new art form. (Washington Post)

• Test Yourself: Which Faces Were Made by A.I.? (New York Times)

• AI Voice-Cloning Startup ElevenLabs Valued at $1.1 Billion (Bloomberg)

• Huge proportion of internet is a AI-generated slime, researchers find. (Futurism)

• Congress Is Trying to Stop AI Nudes and Deepfake Scams Because Celebrities Are Mad (Vice)

• Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin among thousands of British artists used to train AI software, Midjourney (The Guareian)

• Adobe Firefly is doing generative AI differently and it may even be good for you (TechRadar)

• POV > AI (Rei Inamoto on Substack)

• Stable LM 2 1.6B is a state-of-the-art 1.6 billion parameter small language model trained on multilingual data in English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Dutch. (Stability)

• A non-profit GPU cluster that runs open-source paper demos with a UI for free for everyone. (GitHub) PhotoMaker demo running on the cluster.

• Fast Dynamic 3D Object Generation from a Single-view Video (project page)

• Inflation with Diffusion: Efficient Temporal Adaptation for Text-to-Video Super-Resolution (arXiv)

• You Can Now Dress Your Characters With Anything You Can Imagine ✨ (X)

• Depict a rocket with a banana for scale (X)

• ChatGPT is just like us... it also struggles to not think about an elephant (X)