This weekend in Generative Media

Authors sue NVIDIA; AI isn't ready for primetime; Midjourney blocks Stability workers

• Nvidia is sued by authors over AI use of copyrighted works (Yahoo Finance / Reuters)

• AI is not ready for primetime (CNN)

• Midjourney Blocks All Stability AI Employees After Alleged Data Theft Attempt (PetaPixel)

• To Understand The Future Of AI, Look At What Happened To Chess (Forbes)

• Whistleblowers call out AI's flaws (Axios)

• Microsoft begins blocking some terms that caused its AI tool to create violent, sexual images (CNBC)

• UNESCO finds ‘pervasive’ gender bias in generative AI tools (CIO)

• Sora AI videos easily confused with real footage in survey test (Variety)

• The new Adobe Express app is a game-changer for content creators: Firefly AI comes to iOS and Android (Creative Bloq)

• Crunchyroll execs respond to AI subtitle controversy and the Funimation merger (Polygon)

• Convai aims to put an end to basic 'one-line' NPCs with AI but says it 'needs more high quality writers and artists, not less' to get it done (PCGamer)

• Discover Daily Podcast: Our episodes, drawn from our Discover feed and brought to life with ElevenLabs' voices. (Perplexity)

• Our T2 Remake feature-length AI film (Zero1Cine)

• FaceChain is a deep-learning toolchain for generating your Digital-Twin (GitHub)

• MagicClay: Sculpting Meshes With Generative Neural Fields (project page)

• RealCustom: Narrowing Real Text Word for Real-Time Open-Domain Text-to-Image Customization (project page)

• CutLER: Cut and Learn for Unsupervised Object Detection and Instance Segmentation (CVPR 2024, project page)

• Prob: There are too many AI papers to read (and a bit difficult to understand)

  Sol: A PDF2Video explainer (X)

• Someone just asked me what most people get wrong about AI media. Here is my answer (X)

• Seeing the previously unseeable. Create something that you’ve never seen before with AI. (X)