This weekend in Generative Media
AI stalking with one photo; ChatGPT embeds on campus; Feds' AI power grab
News and Opinion
AI can now stalk you with just a single vacation photo (Vox)
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT. (New York Times) OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State.
Federal AI power grab could end state protections for kids and workers (Fox News)
Film festival showcases what artificial intelligence can do on the big screen (AP News)
Meta plans AI-driven hiring overhaul, internal doc reveals (Business Insider)
Affection AI: Algorithms Have Begun To Reshape Human Love (Forbes)
The Googlers behind NotebookLM are launching their own AI audio startup. Here's a sneak peek. (Business Insider)
Toma’s AI voice agents have taken off at car dealerships — and attracted funding from a16z (TechCrunch)
Software
Generative Omnimatte: Learning to Decompose Video into Layers (GitHub)
Launch Hugging Face Models In Colab For Faster AI Exploration (Spencer Shunway on Medium)
Connect Your MCP Client to the Hugging Face Hub (HuggingFace)
Research
FreeTimeGS: Free Gaussian Primitives at Anytime Anywhere for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction (project page)
SAMWISE: Infusing Wisdom in SAM2 for Text-Driven Video Segmentation (project page)
Dual-Process Image Generation (project page)
Voyager: Long-Range and World-Consistent Video Diffusion for Explorable 3D Scene Generation (project page)
DenseDPO: Fine-Grained Temporal Preference Optimization for Video Diffusion Models (project page)
MARBLE: Material Recomposition and Blending in CLIP-Space (project page)
Multi-view Surface Reconstruction Using Normal and Reflectance Cues (arXiv)
Contrastive Flow Matching (arXiv)