This weekend in Generative Media

Meta's AI; Draw the line on AI in TV & film? Photo award winners mixed feelings on AI

• Meta’s AI chatbot is coming to social media. Misinformation may come with it. (Washington Post)

• Meta rolls out new Meta AI website, and it might just bury Microsoft and Google's AI dreams (TechRadar)

• As most AI execs scramble for more data, Mark Zuckerberg says there's actually something more 'valuable' (Business Insider)

• Where do we draw the line on using AI in TV and film? (The Guardian)

• 'It’s nothing to do with photography' – Sony World Photography Award winners tell us their mixed feelings about AI (TechRadar)

• The Taylor Swift Album Leak’s Big AI Problem (Wired)

• An AI Salvador Dalí will answer any question when called on his famous 'lobster phone' (NPR)

• We're proud to showcase some recent real-time work with 3D / 4D Gaussian splatting. (InfiniteRealities on YouTube)

• ILWP REMOTE ENCOUNTERS 05 | Should You Be Afraid of AI? (podcast: In Love With the Process)

• In-browser text-to-music generation (HuggingFace)

• Share, Run and Deploy ComfyUI workflows in the cloud.

  No downloads or installs are required. Zero setups.

  Pay only for active GPU usage, not idle time. Zero wastage. (Comfy.icu)

• ComfyUI-Tripo: This extension integrates Tripo into ComfyUI, allowing users to generate 3D models from text prompts or images directly within the ComfyUI interface. (GitHub)

• On the Content Bias in Fréchet Video Distance (CVPR 2024, project page)

• Real-time Neural Rendering of Dynamic Light Fields (Eurographics 2024, project page)

• Level Of Gaussians: Real-Time View Synthesis for Large Scenes with Millions of Square Meters (project page)

• VideoGigaGAN: Towards Detail-rich Video Super-Resolution (project page)

• MeshLRM: Large Reconstruction Model for High-Quality Meshes (project page)

• CTRL-Adapter: An Efficient and Versatile Framework for Adapting Diverse Controls to Any Diffusion Model (project page)

• Customizing Text-to-Image Diffusion with Camera Viewpoint Control (project page)

• Moving Object Segmentation: All You Need Is SAM (and Flow) (project page)

• IntrinsicAnything: Learning Diffusion Priors for Inverse Rendering Under Unknown Illumination (project page)

• 6Img-to-3D (project page)

• Magic Clothing: Controllable Garment-Driven Image Synthesis (arXiv). Code on GitHub.

• WhisperKit-v0.6.0 dropped yesterday! In the demo, 200 audio files (~26 minutes) are transcribed in ~13 seconds on an M2 Ultra Mac using whisper-base. (X)

• Last year we got 400 submissions. This year we got 2,400 submissions. Next year? (X)

• What will TED look like in 40 years? For TED2024, we worked with artist

  PaulTrillo and OpenAI to create this exclusive video using Sora, their unreleased text-to-video model. (X)

• Going into iconic movie scenes using gaussian splats (Reddit)