This weekend in Generative Media

DGA agreement covers AI; AI is changing film; AI doomerism is a decoy

News & Opinions

• Hollywood Directors Reach Deal With Studios as Writers’ Strike Continues (New York Times). “The tentative agreement includes improvements in wages and guardrails around artificial intelligence.”

• Welcome to the new surreal. How AI-generated video is changing film. (MIT Technology Review)

• AI doomerism is a decoy. (The Atlantic)

• What will stop AI from flooding the internet with fake images? (Vox)

• Is AI Creativity Possible? (Gizmodo)

Business & Society

• Generative AI startup Runway taps Google to lead a $100 million funding round and sign a major cloud contract (Business Insider)

• The A.I. job culling has already begun and 4,000 people lost work last month to the technology, according to a new report (Yahoo Finance).

• Counterpoint: Prepare For An Expanded Job Market, Thanks To Artificial Intelligence (Forbes)

• Your next job may depend on how well you understand AI tools like ChatGPT (Business Insider)

Products & Features

• Dumme’s AI video editor creates YouTube Shorts in minutes (TechCrunch)

• AI Skins for Roblox, launching in beta today 🪄 (Twitter)

• ProlificDreamer 3D model generation is improving in Threestudio. (Twitter)

• Character.AI, the a16z-backed chatbot startup, tops 1.7M installs in first week (TechCrunch)

Art & Artists

• AI Surrealism: The largest AI art show in history (Twitter)

• Greg Rutkowski is the most prompted artist on Stable Diffusion (Creative Bloq)

• Google's Top Result for "Johannes Vermeer" Is an AI-Generated Version of "Girl With a Pearl Earring" (Futurism)

• Duke Nukem Remastered Developer Apologized for Using AI Art (80.lv)

• A design firm created with AI tools in one weekend fooled some people — despite the pictures' basic flaws (Business Insider)

Workflows & Tutorials

• How to Use A.I. to Edit and Generate Stunning Photos (New York Times)

• AI Art --> cut, copy, paste collage --> on a 3D material --> on a 3D dress --> as an archway for augmented reality (Twitter)

• Experiment: AI generative video from p5.js output (Twitter)

• Using AfterEffects, Generative Fill and MidJourney to animate an illustration (Twitter)

• Alone in a Crowd: Generated in Maya enhanced with Stable Diffusion (Twitter)

Research papers

• Example-based Motion Synthesis via Generative Motion Matching (SIGGRAPH 2023)

• TextDiffuser: Diffusion Models as Text Painters (arXiv)

• Segment Anything in High Quality (arXiv). Code and models coming soon (GitHub)

Just for fun…

• The wonders of the world… misspelled by Midjourney (Twitter)

• The Wizards Next Door (reddit via Twitter)

• AI is taking over (Twitter)