Today in Generative Media

AI music theft exposed; AI influencers everywhere; GenAI 'divisive" in animation

News and Opinion

• ‘The largest IP theft in human history’: Breaking down the years-long investigation into how AI firms are stealing music (Billboard)

• They’re Famous. They’re Everywhere. And They’re Fake. (New York Times)

• Generative AI is ‘Divisive’ as Animation Industry Embraces Innovative Production Tools: Report (Variety)

• Reese Witherspoon Says Women Need to Be ‘Involved in AI’ Because It’s the ‘Future of Filmmaking’: ‘You Can Lament It All You Want, but the Change Is Here’ (Variety)

• Is AI undermining agencies’ client relationships or reinforcing agencies’ roles? (DigiDay)

• AI Photo Generation Is All Coming Together for Google (Bloomberg)

• AI Drama ‘Humans in the Loop’ Adds Kiran Rao, Biju Toppo as Executive Producers (EXCLUSIVE) (Yahoo! Entertainment)

Software

• Switzerland releases its own AI model trained on public data (The Verge)

• ClearerVoice-Studio is an open-source, AI-powered speech processing toolkit... It provides capabilities of speech enhancement, speech separation, speech super-resolution, target speaker extraction, and more. (GitHub)

• A "green screen" inpainting LoRA for Qwen Image Edit. Just paint whatever you want inpainted green, prompt with the instruction, and it will fill in the green area with whatever you prompt. (HuggingFace)

• OpenVision 2: A Family of Generative Pretrained Visual Encoders that removes the text encoder and contrastive loss, training with caption-only supervision. (project page)

Research

• GenCompositor: Generative Video Compositing with Diffusion Transformer (project page)

• Droplet3D: Commonsense Priors from Videos Facilitate 3D Generation (project page)

• NanoControl: A Lightweight Framework for Precise and Efficient Control in Diffusion Transformer (arXiv)

Misc

• We’re introducing Flow Sessions and our first filmmaker in residence. (Google Keyword blog)

• With big tech now furiously jumping into creative AI and the arts, I'm constantly reminded of how important it is to really care about what you build. (X)

• What's the Future of Art Look Like? A Visual Effects Artist + a Curator Answer | TED Intersections (YouTube)

• Wow - relighting test with Nvidia's Cosmos DiffusionRenderer (X)

• Car Explosion with WAN Vace 2.1 (YouTube)