This weekend in Generative Media - 2/23/26

Netflix threatens ByteDance; AMC refuses to screen AI film; Pinterest drowns in AI slop

News and Opinion

• Netflix Threatens ByteDance With ‘Immediate Litigation’ Over Seedance 2.0 AI Clips (Variety)

• AMC Theatres Will Refuse to Screen AI Short Film After Online Uproar (Hollywood Reporter)

• Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation (404 Media)

• Creators Were Told To Build Online. Now AI Companies Are Saying “Let Them Eat Cake.” (Forbes)

• ‘We May Have a Crisis on Our Hands’: The Unregulated Rise of Emotionally Intelligent AI (Time)

• Using AI responsibly means knowing when not to use it (The Conversation)

• Your AI Chatbot is Not Your Lawyer: AI Privilege Issues in Litigation (Freshfields)

• How will OpenAI compete? (Benedict Evans’ blog)

Software

• Lyria 3: Create custom tracks for any moment (Google Gemini)

• ComfyUI Viewer - OpenReel Video Extension (GitHub) Embeds a modified fork of OpenReel Video into ComfyUI_Viewer for interactive video editing within ComfyUI workflows.

• Gemini Artboard - Built for Gemini 3.1 Pro (GitHub) A self-contained creative coding playground. Type a description, and Gemini writes visual code that renders instantly at 60fps. Iterate with follow-up prompts to evolve your creation.

• PicoLM: Run a 1-billion parameter LLM on a $10 board with 256MB RAM. (GitHub)

Research

• FantasyWorld: Geometry-Consistent World Modeling via Unified Video and 3D Prediction (project page)

• Timestamped Audio Captioning (project page)

• CAPA: Depth Completion as Parameter-Efficient Test-Time Adaptation (project page)

• Unified Latents (UL): How to train your latents (arXiv)

Misc

• The flavor of the bitter lesson for computer vision (Vincent Sitzmann’s blog)

• State of Generative Media (fal.ai) [whitepaper]

• AI Turning Point: Why Creators Should Shut Up About Using It (X)

• The truth about AI and Hollywood is that everyone is lying, says The Ankler ‘s Janice Min (X)

• Now that Gemini 3.1 and Claude 4.6 are both out, I wanted to see what happens when you throw them at a 3D project. Built a geospatial command center with live flight tracking, real satellite orbits, CCTV feeds projected onto 3D building geometry, and a procedural traffic system. Skinned the whole thing with FLIR, night vision, and CRT filters. (Threads)

• How did I get to $11M? I vibe coded my 2025 tax return with claude and it estimated a $11M tax refund. (Threads)