Today in Generative Media

OpenAI's copyright whistleblower; AI cheating detectors fail; AI data centers hit reality

[I’m taking Friday off. See you on Monday!]

News

• Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law (New York Times)

• AI Detectors Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating—With Big Consequences (Bloomberg)

• Amazon's AI data center dream runs into the reality of 'zombie' facilities, higher costs, and labor shortages (Business Insider)

• Biden Administration Outlines Government ‘Guardrails’ for A.I. Tools (New York Times)

Software

• How Jacob Collier helped shape the new MusicFX DJ (Google Keyword blog)

• From Goodreads’ founder, Smashing debuts its AI-powered app for online readers (TechCrunch)

• StableProjectorz: A free tool for making textures and 3D via StableDiffusion

• 24 hours in, @Kijaidesign compressed Mochi 1 Preview's inference from 320 GB VRAM (4x H100) to 20GB VRAM (1x 4090) on ComfyUI: a 16x reduction. (X)

Research

• VistaDream: Sampling multiview consistent images for single-view scene reconstruction (project page)

• The Scene Language: Representing Scenes with Programs, Words, and Embeddings (project page)

• LVSM: A Large View Synthesis Model with Minimal 3D Inductive Bias (project page)

• SAM2Long: Enhancing SAM 2 for Long Video Segmentation with a Training-Free Memory Tree (project page)

• OmniParser for Pure Vision Based GUI Agent (project page)

• SpectroMotion: Dynamic 3D Reconstruction of Specular Scenes (project page)

• Simplifying, stabilizing, and scaling continuous-time consistency models (project page)