This weekend in Generative Media

A new genAI artist contract; remaking old games with AI; genAI intellectual property

• A New Contract for Artists in the Age of Generative AI (Tech Policy Press)

• Broken Sword dev ‘simply couldn’t afford’ to remake it without using AI (Polygon)

• Generative AI and intellectual property (Benedict Evans)

• So AI art can't be copyrighted (but is this the end of the story?) (Creative Bloq)

• What Copyright’s “Unclaimable Material” Rules Mean for Hollywood’s Use of AI (Copyright Lately)

• From the darkroom to generative AI (Content Authenticity Initiative)

• ElevenLabs’ voice-generating tools launch out of beta. (TechCrunch)

• Qualcomm's 'Holy Grail': Generative AI Is Coming to Phones Soon (CNET) I believe you will see a chatGPT level language model (on at least some metrics) on a mobile phone next year and GPT-4 level year after 🤓 (Emad Mostaque on X)

• Young professionals are turning to AI to create headshots. But there are catches (NPR)

• Google silently dropped this new AI powered tools for rappers, writers and wordsmiths in collaboration with Lupe Fiasco (X)

• Diffusion with Forward Models: Solving Stochastic Inverse Problems Without Direct Supervision (project page)

• Make-It-4D: Synthesizing a Consistent Long-Term Dynamic Scene Video from a Single Image (arXiv)

• Scenimefy: Learning to Craft Anime Scene via Semi-Supervised Image-to-Image Translation (project page)

• Dense Text-to-Image Generation with Attention Modulation (arXiv)

• Smooth Style and Concept Vid2Vid Conversion! Full workflow and tutorial included!!! (Reddit)

• Personally I think the plan for AI Video Content (wholly AI Generated) on Streamers IS NOT to make prestige shows, but rather to make Wallpaper TV. Totally passive background noise to have on while cleaning the house, ironing, scrolling on your phone. (X)