This weekend in Generative Media

Will AI replace creatives? AI "South Park" enrages strikers; GenAI won't disrupt books

• Will AI replace creatives in Hollywood? A VFX expert weighs in (KCRW)

• Unauthorized AI-Generated ‘South Park’ Episode Leaves WGA and SAG Strikers Enraged: “Straight To Hell” (Decider)

• New Showrunner AI: The Sum Of All Hollywood's Fears (Forbes)

• Why Generative AI Won’t Disrupt Books (Wired)

• Echoes of Somewhere and the AI Controversy (Adventure Game Hotspot)

• AnyDoor: Zero-shot Object-level Image Customization (project page)

• OBJect 3DIT: Language-guided 3D-aware Image Editing (project page)

• STEVE-1: A Generative Model for Text-to-Behavior in Minecraft (arXiv)

• The CSM-Cube web app is designed to transform ANY image – be it AI-generated, concept art, or pictures – into high-resolution 3D assets. (Twitter)

• A Teaser Trailer for Anomaly Z, Season One. Visuals created with Gen2 image-to-video by RunwayML (Twitter)

• This is wild: watch this guy go around in the Matrix Awakens (!) game explaining to AI NPCs they’re in a simulation. (Twitter)