This weekend in Generative Media

Taylor Swift deepfakes; AI apps automate pro-Israel activism; GenAI internet is here

• Explicit Deepfake Images of Taylor Swift Elude Safeguards and Swamp Social Media (New York Times)

• Taylor Swift deepfakes spark calls in Congress for new legislation (BBC)

• Growing number of apps help automate pro-Israel activism online (Washington Post)

• The era of the AI-generated internet is already here (Mashable)

• The George Carlin ‘AI’ Standup Creators Now Say a Human Wrote the Jokes (Wired)

• New research combats burgeoning threat of deepfake audio (TechXplore)

• Google’s new AI feature transforms you into a historical art piece (CreativeBloq)

• AI-generated content is raising the value of trust (The Economist)

• An Armchair Taxonomy of AI Filmmaking (Mike Gioia on Substack)

• No, multimodal ChatGPT is not going to “trivially” solve Generative AI's copyright problems (Gary Marcus on Substack)

• We know that GPT-4 generates better ideas than most people, but the ideas are kind of similar & having many diverse ideas matters. We discover that better prompting can generate large pools of good ideas that are almost as diverse as from a group of humans. (Ethan Mollick on LinkedIn)

• ActAnywhere: Subject-Aware Video Background Generation (project page)

• EmerDiff: Emerging Pixel-level Semantic Knowledge in Diffusion Models (project page)

• SUPIR: Revolutionizing image restoration with cutting-edge large-scale AI (project page)

• CreativeSynth: Creative Blending and Synthesis of Visual Arts based on Multimodal Diffusion (project page)

• Diffusion Priors for Dynamic View Synthesis from Monocular Videos (project page)

• Duolingo's AI conversation feature really lets you get off the grid (X)