This weekend in Generative Media

Is AI good for Hollywood? Disney's AI/Mixed Reality group; AI startups in Hollywood

News and Opinion

• What if A.I. Is Actually Good for Hollywood? (New York Times)

• Disney Establishes Group to Oversee AI, Mixed Reality Adoption in ‘Responsible’ Way Across the Company (Variety)

• Amid backlash and fears, AI startups are quietly creeping into Hollywood (Fast Company)

• An ‘Interview’ With a Dead Luminary Exposes the Pitfalls of A.I. (New York Times)

• Meta’s AI Abundance (Ben Thompson’s Stratechery blog)

• AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias (GeekWire)

• Deepfake threats spawn new business for entrepreneurs, investors (Axios)

• Generative AI can reproduce an image when trained on as few as 200 copies (Fast Company)

• An Open Letter to Perplexity: No, Media Isn't Trying to Stop Technology. It Just Expects to Be Paid. (Peter Csathy on Substack)

• EXCLUSIVE: Perplexity Is Quietly Building an AI-Powered Shopping Experience, Taking On Amazon (AdWeek)

• Chinese military researchers reportedly used Meta AI to develop defense chatbot (TechCrunch)

Software

• Runway goes 3D with new AI video camera controls for Gen-3 Alpha Turbo (VentureBeat)

• ComfyUI nodes to edit videos using Genmo Mochi (GitHub)

• New Blender add-on: 2D People generated with Flux + background removed and added as assets (X)

Research

• URAvatar: Universal Relightable Gaussian Codec Avatars (SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 project page)

• DELTA: Dense Efficient Long-range 3D Tracking for Any video (project page)

• PF3plat : Pose-Free Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting (project page)

• SOAR Self-Occluded Avatar Recovery from a Single Video In the Wild (project page)

• In-Context LoRA for Diffusion Transformers (project page)

• Textbooks come alive with new interactive AI tool (phys.org)

• GaussianMarker: Uncertainty-Aware Copyright Protection of 3D Gaussian Splatting (arXiv)

• Diffusion Models in 3D Vision: A Survey (arXiv)

Misc

• The ultimate in AI, entertainment, & innovation (Infinity Festival) Hollywood, November 6-9, 2024

• omg, it seems recraft v3 can perform simple language model tasks (X)

• The new effect “We Are Venom!” is now live! (X)