This weekend in Generative Media

SAG deal's AI terms debated; Adobe's AI war photos; Katzenberg on AI for animation

• Justine Bateman Slams SAG-AFTRA Tentative Deal’s AI Provisions (Hollywood Reporter) SAG Negotiating Committee’s Jason Winston George Says It’s ‘Unrealistic,’ ‘Impossible’ to Resist AI (The Wrap)

• Adobe Stock is Selling AI-Generated Images of the Israel-Hamas Conflict (PetaPixel)

• The Guy Behind “Shrek” Says AI is Going To Wipe Out Human Jobs in Animation. (Futurism) The actual quote is less incendiary: AI Will Cut Cost of Animated Films by 90%, Jeff Katzenberg Says (Bloomberg, paywalled)

• Worried about AI hijacking your voice for a deepfake? This tool could help (NPR)

• Here’s Why AI Companies Think They Can Use Photographers’ Work Without Compensation (PetaPixel)

• A few media GPTs created using ChatGPT (OpenAI):

  • Trey Ratcliff's Photo Critique GPT: Over 5,000 of my Blog Entries and my various books will be used to give you a critique of your photo.

  • OpenStorytelling Plus: Screenplay Writing Guide w/ Screenplay Examples — Browsing, Advanced Data Analysis, and DALL-E — www.OpenStorytelling.com

  • Photography Prompt Builder: imagine the scene and CHATGPT will make it

• FLARE: Fast Learning of Animatable and Relightable Mesh Avatars (SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, project page)

• Real-time is here. With it, a new generation of AI creative tools is coming. (X)

• It's a "bring this area/object/thing in the video to life" and... Boom! Magic! 🤯 (X)

• It's all about controls. GEN-2 Made with RunwayML. (X)

• I deleted my post of painting in Photoshop with an AI interpretation running as I was painting. The amount of hate, negativity, and fear was staggering and I don't want to defend myself against that. (X) Martin did, however, permit others to share his original video elsewhere: AI running while painting.

  Hate all you want, this is the future. (X)

• Not all clips crystallise into proper storylines; however, some shots were too good not to share! (X)

• "MagicDiffusionDreamGAN is all you need for NeRFLLMs", a paper written by ChatGPT (X)