This weekend in Generative Media

Actors regret AI avatars; AI bots undercover; Meta: books have "no economic value"

News and Opinion

• Regrets: Actors who sold AI avatars stuck in Black Mirror-esque dystopia (Ars Technica)

• This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops (Wired)

• Meta Says It's Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No "Economic Value" (Futurism)

• Meta is set to train its AI models with Europeans' public data, and you can stop it doing so (TechRadar)

• Netflix is revamping search with AI to improve discovery (TechCrunch)

Software

• Introducing Camera Angle Concepts (Luma AI)

• Build Faster and Smarter with GenAI Tools in Meta Horizon Worlds (Meta Horizon blog)

• ComfyUI Wrapper for FramePack (GitHub)

• Just announced new versions of Gemma 3 – the most capable model to run just one H100 GPU – can now run on just one *desktop* GPU! Our Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) method drastically brings down memory use while maintaining high quality. Excited to make Gemma 3 even more accessible for more developers. (X)

• Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5 (Simon Willison’s blog)

Research

• One Model to Rig Them All: Diverse Skeleton Rigging with Unirig (project page)

• Event-Enhanced Blurry Video Super-Resolution (project page)

• TSGS: Improving Gaussian Splatting for Transparent Surface Reconstruction via Normal and De-lighting Priors (project page)

• Real-time High-fidelity Gaussian Human Avatars with Position-based Interpolation of Spatially Distributed MLPs (arXiv)

Misc

• A Memoir of What A.I. Giveth, and What It Taketh Away (New York Times)

• Language models thinking step by step to do arithmetic... (X)

• "Bro, it's easy just install ComfyUI" (X)