This weekend in Generative Media

Defend against AI clones, data scraping; AI companies create news; AI friendships

News and Opinion

• Your AI clone could target your family, but there’s a simple defense (Ars Technica)

• How to stop the AI you’re using from training with your data (The Verge)

• AI companies grapple with what it means to be creators of news (Nieman Lab. Predictions for Journalism, 2025)

• AI friendships claim to cure loneliness. Some are ending in suicide (Washington Post)

• Anthropic’s Dario Amodei: Democracies must maintain the lead in AI (Financial Times)

• Seattle Pacific University professor leads shift toward using AI in writing courses (King 5 News)

• Google’s Genie 2 “world model” reveal leaves more questions than answers (Ars Technica)

Software

• With Runway's Act-1, you can now condition videos using other videos. (X)

• Google's Gemini-1206 is making noise at #1 in LMArena. (X)

• Meta launches open source Llama 3.3, shrinking powerful bigger model into smaller size (VentureBeat) [Demo on HuggingFace]

• X’s Grok AI chatbot is now available to all users (The Verge)

• Diffusion-based Visual Anagram as Multi-task Learning (GitHub)

Research

• iSeg: Interactive 3D Segmentation via Interactive Attention (SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 project page)

• From Slow Bidirectional to Fast Causal Video Generators (project page) We introduce CausVid, a fast autoregressive video diffusion model that starts playing the moment you hit "Generate"!

• A Noise is Worth Diffusion Guidance (project page)

• Sparse Voxels Rasterization: Real-time High-fidelity Radiance Field Rendering (arXiv)

Misc

• we’ve entered the “why fix your code today when better model will do it tomorrow” regime (X)

• Hmm, I wonder what Hunyuan was trained on (X)

• Science fiction doesn’t just entertain — it literally shapes our future. (X)