This weekend in Generative Media
EU reveals AI rules; AI content overwhelms tech platforms; Luma Labs' Dream Lab LA
News and Opinion
European Union Unveils Rules for Powerful A.I. Systems (New York Times)
Was That Amazing Video in Your Feed Real or AI? Tech Platforms Are Struggling to Let You Know (Wall Street Journal)
Introducing Dream Lab LA (Luma Labs)
A.I.-Generated Images of Child Sexual Abuse Are Flooding the Internet (New York Times)
Musk’s Chatbot Started Spouting Nazi Propaganda. That’s Not the Scariest Part. (New York Times)
YouTube ‘clarifies’ its plan to demonetize spammy AI slop (The Verge)
Tencent improves testing creative AI models with new benchmark (Artificial Intelligence News)
Why Intentional Storytelling Matters in an Era of AI and Algorithm-Driven Content (Helping Writers Become Authors)
AI coding may not be helping as much as you think (Gary Marcus on Substack)
A.I. Is Making Sure You Pay for That Ding on Your Rental Car (New York Times)
Coding is dead: UW computer science program rethinks curriculum for the AI era (GeekWire)
Software
Announcing GenAI Processors: Build powerful and flexible Gemini applications (Google Developers Blog)
moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct: Colossal new open weights model release today from Moonshot AI, a two year old Chinese AI lab with a name inspired by Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon. (Simon Willison’s blog)
Research
OmniPart: Part-Aware 3D Generation with Semantic Decoupling and Structural Cohesion (project page)
OmniVCus: Feedforward Subject-driven Video Customization with Multimodal Control Conditions (project page)
4KAgent : Agentic Any Image to 4K Super-Resolution (project page)
Writing without borders: AI and cross-cultural convergence in academic writing quality (Nature)
Misc
Grok: searching X for “from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)” (Simon Willison’s blog)