This weekend in Generative Media

del Toro talks AI; AI song ineligible for Grammys; Generative Audio Workstations

• Guillermo del Toro Talks Artificial Intelligence: “I’m Worried About Natural Stupidity” (Hollywood Reporter). “If anyone wants movies made by AI, let them get it immediately. I don’t care about people who want to be fulfilled and get something shitty, quickly.”

• Actually, That AI Drake and The Weeknd Song Is Not Eligible for a Grammy (Gizmodo)

• Generative Audio Workstations: AI VSTs & The Future of DAWs (AudioCipher.com)

• Adobe’s Dana Rao doesn’t want you to get duped by AI (FastCompany) The Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative will help people tell what’s real from what’s fake..

• Adobe Photoshop 25 review: AI is here to stay (Creative Bloq)

• Opinion: You hate AI for all the right reasons. Now reconsider. (Washington Post)

• Roblox’s new AI chatbot will help you build virtual worlds (The Verge)

• Microsoft offers legal protection for AI copyright infringement challenges (Ars Technica)

• Steam's Block on Generative AI is Good for the Games Industry (“AI and Games” on Substack)

• AI Makes Pictures Too Perfect, Even for a Fashion Magazine (PetaPixel)

• Scientific sleuths spot dishonest ChatGPT use in papers (Nature)

• Project Gutenberg and Microsoft have worked together to create thousands of free and open audiobooks using new neural text-to-speech technology and Project Gutenberg's large open-access collection of e-books. (Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection)

• Here's the most effective GPT-4 prompt I've developed for writing tasks. It's like having a professional editor by your side. Use it to enhance the clarity and readability of your writing. (X)

• Gen2 now has camera controls for panning, rotating, and zooming (X)

• Many people struggle to make consistent comic characters and scenes in Midjourney. Combining my findings with techniques shared by fellow creators, this post will fix it once and for all. (X)