Today in Generative Media

How genAI sees us; Scarlett Johansson vs. AI; Stability launches 3D and fine-tuning

• This is how AI image generators see the world (Washington Post)

• Scarlett Johansson Takes Legal Action Against AI App That Ripped Off Her Likeness in Advertisement (Variety)

• Exclusive: Stability AI brings advanced 3D and image fine-tuning to Stable Diffusion (VentureBeat) Stability AI Previews Enhanced Image Offerings: APIs for Business & New Product Features (stability.ai)

• Ubisoft’s AI Assassin’s Creed poster gets worse the more you look at it (Creative Bloq)

• Genie, a 3D foundation model preview (Luma Labs)

• Beyond U: Making Diffusion Models Faster & Lighter (arXiv)

• Controllable Music Production with Diffusion Models and Guidance Gradients (arXiv)

• Experimental workflow test

  1) Rough Blender Animation Blockout

  2) #RunwayML Gen 1 Text to Prompt for Base Style

  3) #AnimateDiff for cleanup (X)

• Runway has just released a major update to GEN-2. Personally, I would call it game-changing. Massive improvements, fewer artifacts, infinite new possibilities. (X) Gen-2 is a new kind of camera. It didn't exist 5 months ago. The idea alone was far fetched. Until it wasn't. Today, it got an update. And it's a significant step forward. For fidelity. For consistency. For anyone, anywhere with a story to tell. (X)

• Introducing Tuner: A new tool that empowers fine-grained control over your images (X)

• 🚨 The new /tune function of MidJourney is going to change the way we share prompts. (X)

• I was so blown away by @javilopen's Angry Birds replication with AI that I had to verify it myself 😁 (X)

• Introducing YouTune — fine tune image models on YouTube videos. (X)