This weekend in Generative Media

Fry's voice stolen by AI; Mistrust of corporate AI use; "Terraforming Mars" uses AI art

• Actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI—and warns this is just the beginning (Fortune)

• Most Americans don't trust companies to use AI responsibly, study finds (Business Insider)

• As his Kickstarter passes $1.3M, publisher defends Terraforming Mars’ generative AI art: ‘It’s too powerful a technology’ (Polygon)

• Creating AI art with Raspberry Pi (RaspberryPi.com)

• Market Map: Generative AI for Virtual Worlds (Jon Radoff)

• AG3D: Learning to Generate 3D Avatars from 2D Image Collections (ICCV 2023, project page)

• TaleStream: Supporting Story Ideation with Trope Knowledge (UIST 2023, project page)

• Large-Vocabulary 3D Diffusion Model with Transformer (project page)

• Convert simple 3D objects into a photo-realistic shot of New York seen from above with the free Blender VSE add-on, Pallaidium (X)

• Unknown artist, no description, no price, no story. Hundreds of thousands of likes, millions of views. (X) Play with IllusionDiffusion on your computer, as much as you want (X)

• Most art historians would say that you can't disentangle the repetition of patterns in art production from the commodification of art - AI or not AI. (X)