This weekend in Generative Media
Hollywood rewrites AI rules; Tom Hanks deepfake ads; Opaque AI payouts & opt-outs
Opinion: Hollywood’s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I. (New York Times)
Tom Hanks Warns of an AI Version of Him Used to Promote Dental Plan: “I Have Nothing to Do With It” (Hollywood Reporter)
How much can artists make from generative AI? Vendors won’t say (TechCrunch)
OpenAI offers a way for creators to opt out of AI training data. It's so onerous that one artist called it 'enraging.' (Business Insider)
What is Creativity? Can Computers Be Creative? (Aaron Hertzmann)
RealFill: Reference-Driven Generation for Authentic Image Completion (project page)
Preface: A Data-driven Volumetric Prior for Few-shot Ultra High-resolution Face Synthesis (project page)
CCEdit: Creative and Controllable Video Editing via Diffusion Models (arXiv)
On the eve of the AMPTP SAG negotiations resuming, I want to remind actors, particularly the most famous of you, of what’s at stake in AI (Justine Bateman on X)
Zero Training - Instant "Mini LoRA" for Stable Diffusion! (YouTube)