This weekend in Generative Media

ElevenLabs' genAI music; How AI redefines creativity; AI in Planet of the Apes?

• ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model (VentureBeat)

• Circles of intelligence: How AI is redefining human creativity (FastCompany)

• Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes Is The Greatest Argument Against AI 'Art' (SlashFilm)

• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ VFX lead argues that the movie uses AI ethically (Polygon)

• Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors (New York Times)

• Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan (VentureBeat)

• Google CloudNeRF: Zip-NeRF and CamP in the Cloud (radiancefields.com) We quietly dropped a cloud-based NeRF service a few weeks ago, so now everyone has the ability to produce super high-quality radiance fields with Google Cloud. (X)

• IbisPaint now provides a built-in AI ‘sabotaging’ tool (The Verge)

• Detecting, Explaining, and Mitigating Memorization in Diffusion Models (ICLR 2024)

• Diffusion2GAN: Distilling Diffusion Models into Conditional GANs (project page)

• AniTalker: Animate Vivid and Diverse Talking Faces through Identity-Decoupled Facial Motion Encoding (project page)

• From Parts to Whole: A Unified Reference Framework for Controllable Human Image Generation (project page)

• MasterWeaver: Taming Editability and Identity for Personalized Text-to-Image Generation (project page)

• Anywhere: A Multi-Agent Framework for Reliable and Diverse Foreground-Conditioned Image Inpainting (project page)

• FastScene: Text-Driven Fast 3D Indoor Scene Generation via Panoramic Gaussian Splatting (arXiv)

• “Deflated” is a companion piece to “air head”; shykids first experiment with OpenAI’s Sora — this time combining real world actors and locations with Sora generated videos. (YouTube)

• I am excited to announce that I have been invited to speak at the Cannes Film Festival next week about the future of AI technology in regard to the entertainment industry. (X)

• Syncopate - AI Music Video (X)

• Today, we proudly present two groundbreaking AI short films. (X)

• Better-than-human levels of persuasion, plus ad supported LLMs, has implications we are going to want to think through. (X)