This weekend in Generative Media

Asteria's AI animated short; Lara Croft actor decries AI dub; Pay-per-output?

News and Opinion

• Asteria Film Co. Reveals C. Craig Patterson’s New Animated Short ‘ChikaBOOM!’ | Exclusive (The Wrap)

• "It's A Betrayal, A Total Disrespect": A French Lara Croft Actor Is Taking Action Against Aspyr Over AI Voice Generation (The Gamer)

• Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. (Ars Technica)

• The deflating realization that a neat little game was AI all along (PC Gamer)

• Why Curious Kids Become Unhackable Adults: Intrinsic curiosity builds cognitive immunity against AI manipulation. (Psychology Today)

• The Foundation Model Gold Rush: Why Everyone's Digging in the Wrong Place (LinkedIn)

Software

• Qwen-Image-HeadshotX is a super-realistic headshot adapter for Qwen-Image, an image generation model by Qwen (HuggingFace)

• sync / lipsync-2-pro: Studio-grade lipsync in minutes, not weeks (Replicate)

• Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time (GitHub)

Research

• Inpaint4Drag: Repurposing Inpainting Models for Drag-Based Image Editing via Bidirectional Warping (project page)

• Plot'n Polish: Zero-shot Story Visualization and Disentangled Editing with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models (project page)

• A Scalable Attention-Based Approach for Image-to-3D Texture Mapping (arXiv)

• 3D-LATTE: Latent Space 3D Editing from Textual Instructions (arXiv)

Misc

• How do AI models generate videos? (MIT Technology Review)

• Q&A with Michael Littman: What’s on the mind of Brown’s first associate provost for AI (News from Brown)

• AI Quests: Bringing AI literacy to the classroom (Google Keyword blog)