This weekend in Generative Media

AI training data in Adobe Firefly; AI in SAG's record label deal; Writers want AI licensing

• Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images (Yahoo/Bloomberg)

• SAG-AFTRA union secures AI protections for artists in deal with major record labels (Reuters)

• Global Screenwriters’ Guilds Vow to Push for “Robust Licensing Mechanisms” for AI Training Data (Hollywood Reporter)

• All The Photo Companies That Have Struck Licensing Deals With AI Firms (PetaPixel)

• Suno AI can generate power ballads about coffee – and jingles for the Guardian. But will it hurt musicians? (The Guardian)

• How Generative AI might affect visual effects, now and in the future. (Visual Effects Society Facebook group)

• This ‘Photo’ Was Made From an 84-Year-Old Woman’s Memory (PetaPixel)

• TCL is making AI-generated ‘originals’ for its Google TVs, and it’s as bad as you think (9to5Google)

• List of AI bills before Congress (ChatGPT Is Eating The World)

• DeepL Translator

• MindBridge: A Cross-Subject Brain Decoding Framework (CVPR 2024, project page)

• Taming Stable Diffusion for Text to 360° Panorama Image Generation (CVPR 2024, project page)

• SphereHead: Stable 3D Full-head Synthesis with Spherical Tri-plane Representation (project page)

• TeFF: Learning 3D-Aware GANs from Unposed Images with Template Feature Field (project page)

• Sparse Global Matching for Video Frame Interpolation with Large Motion (project page)

• Sin3DM: Learning a Diffusion Model from a Single 3D Textured Shape (project page)

• GoodDrag: Towards Good Practices for Drag Editing with Diffusion Models (project page)

• Many-to-many Image Generation with Auto-regressive Diffusion Models (arXiv)

• Manipulating Large Language Models to Increase Product Visibility (arXiv)

• LLMs mainly create opportunities for making *general* progress for building AIs that solve *specific* tasks. (X)

• A quick test of using 3d drawing with 6DOF controllers as an "instructor" for a generative AI process. (X)

• ai will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime there will be great stand-up comedy (X)

• My AI short film,"e^(i*π) + 1 = 0" has been shortlisted as one of the top ten finalists at the AIFF by RunwayML (X)

• So this is where we are now, C3PO dropping bangers 👀 (X) Behind the scenes of C3PO x Childish Gambino 🤖 👑 (X)

• The Hobbit - 1950's Super Panavision 70 (X)

• you’re not ready for the quality of memes AI is enabling (X)