This weekend in Generative Media

Cinematic AI at Venice; Researchers test AI for creativity; Voice deepfake bank scams

• Venice Film Festival 2023 Is Cinematic AI’s Coming Out Party (Forbes)

• Researchers tested AI for creativity. It passed with flying colors (FastCompany)

• Voice Deepfakes Are Coming for Your Bank Balance (New York Times)

• The Battle Over Books3 Could Change AI Forever (Wired)

• ‘He Doesn’t Need VC in His Life’: How Midjourney’s Founder Built an AI Winner While Rejecting Venture Capital (The Information)

• Global controversy after AI art-win prompts rule changes at Colorado State Fair (Denver Post)

• Call of Duty’s new AI voice chat technology detects toxic players in real time (Charlie Intel)

• OpenAI Plugs ChatGPT Into Canva to Sharpen Its Competitive Edge in AI (Decrypt)

• Zoom rebrands existing — and intros new — generative AI features (TechCrunch)

• Wikipedia Will Survive A.I. (Slate)

• Is AI going to replace creative professionals? (ACM Interactions)

• MVDream: Multi-view Diffusion for 3D Generation (project page)

• Watch Your Steps 👀👣: Local Image and Scene Editing by Text Instructions (project page)

• VideoGen: A Reference-Guided Latent Diffusion Approach for High Definition Text-to-Video Generation (arXiv)

• Pose-Free Neural Radiance Fields via Implicit Pose Regularization (arXiv)

• wanna finetune musicgen but don't wanna think? just paste a youtube playlist link, press four buttons, and wait :D works on free tier colab (X)

• The code and demo for TokenFlow are both released! 🥳 (X)

• A massive variety of animation styles are now available to everybody. (X)