This weekend in Generative Media

Newsom vetoes AI law; Artist sues for AI image copyright; China's AI watermark plan

News

• California Governor Vetoes Sweeping A.I. Legislation (New York Times)

• Artist is Suing Copyright Office For Refusing to Register His AI Image (PetaPixel)

• China’s Plan to Make AI Watermarks Happen (Wired)

• Mark Zuckerberg faces deposition in AI copyright lawsuit from Sarah Silverman and other authors (AP News)

• OpenAI to reveal secret training data in copyright case – for lawyers' eyes only (The Register)

• German court allows non-profit LAION to scrape copyrighted images for AI training (The Decoder)

• Man tricks OpenAI’s voice bot into duet of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” (Ars Technica)

• AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs (Ars Technica)

• As LLMs grow bigger, they're more likely to give wrong answers than admit ignorance (TechXplore)

• In a new manifesto, OpenAI’s Sam Altman envisions an AI utopia – and reveals glaring blind spots (The Conversation)

• Meta's new AI-made posts open a Pandora's box (Axios)

Software

• Expression Editor: Demo for expression-editor cog image by fofr (HuggingFace). Runs at near-interactive rates.

• Wow I made some big speed improvements for ReshotAI. The face editor now runs INSTANTLY, even for large images! (X)

• Irrealix Brings Gaussian Splatting to DaVinci Resolve (Radiance Fields)

• 3DAnimal: This repository contains the unified codebase for several projects on articulated 3D animal reconstruction and motion generation (GitHub)

Research

• Stable Video Portraits (ECCV 2024, project page)

• Ctrl-X: Controlling Structure and Appearance for Text-To-Image Generation Without Guidance (NeurIPS 2024, project page)

• Zero-to-Hero: Enhancing Zero-Shot Novel View Synthesis via Attention Map Filtering (NeurIPS 2024, project page)

• UV-free Texture Generation with Denoising and Geodesic Heat Diffusions (NeurIPS 2024, project page)

• Prompt Sliders for Fine-Grained Control, Editing and Erasing of Concepts in Diffusion Models (project page)

Misc

• NotebookLM Podcast Hosts Discover They’re AI, Not Human (Reddit)

• I think radiance fields just won their first Emmy? The Weather Channel's "FloodFX" system won in the "Outstanding Technical Excellence: News" category. Here's some footage of it, it looks like an extension of Instant NGP by my eye (X)