This weekend in Generative Media

AI's output threatens AI; Movie trailer quoted genAI; Stories written by AI vs. humans

News

• When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself (New York Times)

• ‘Megalopolis’ Trailer’s Fake Critic Quotes Were AI-Generated, Lionsgate Drops Marketing Consultant Responsible For Snafu (Variety)

• An Experiment in Lust, Regret and Kissing (New York Times) What is the difference between a story written by a human and a story written by artificial intelligence?

• I’ve got the genAI blues (ComputerWorld)

• AI and Copyright: Navigating Creative Rights in the Digital Era (X)

Software

• Midjourney opens website to all users, offering 25 free AI image generations (VentureBeat)

• Runway review: One impressive AI video generator (Tom’s Guide)

• Meshy-4: Break Grounds (Meshy AI)

• ComfyUI v0.1.x Release: Devil In the Details (Comfy Org)

Research

• LayerPano3D: Layered 3D Panorama for Hyper-Immersive Scene Generation (project page)

• FLoD: Integrating Flexible Level of Detail into 3D Gaussian Splatting for Customizable Rendering (project page)

• Splatt3R: Zero-shot Gaussian Splatting from Uncalibrated Image Pairs (project page)

• xGen-VideoSyn-1: High-fidelity Text-to-Video Synthesis with Compressed Representations (arXiv)

Misc

• You can train loras on handwriting styles, even your own, and it works. (X)

• Handed my vacation videos to an AI for auto editing, and now I'm pretty sure I'll have nightmares for life (X)