Today in Generative Media

Opinions on AI in Hollywood; Sora's limitations; Asteria/Moonvalley's "ethical" AI video

News and Opinion

• For Hollywood, AI Is a Double-Edged Sword (Hollywood Reporter)

• The Sunday Read: ‘What if A.I. is actually good for Hollywood?’ (New York Times)

• Lisa Kudrow Criticizes Robert Zemeckis Film ‘Here’ As “Endorsement For AI” (Deadline)

• Sora's dazzling AI could democratize filmmaking for the next generation — but it still has lots of limitations (Business Insider)

• ‘Clean’ AI Video Model to Launch in Early 2025 Targeting Hollywood Clients (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety) AI studio Asteria is partnering with generative AI research startup Moonvalley to build an “ethically trained” video model for Hollywood.

• We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation Is Not an AI Problem. (Knight Institute)

• ProRata.ai: A New "Ethical" Way to Track, Report & Pay for Content Used in GenAI (Peter Csathy on Substack)

• Paul McCartney reverses opinion on AI after using it to produce new “Beatles” song. Now alarmed it will “wipe out” the music industry. (Futurism)

• AI pioneer Andrej Karpathy thinks book reading needs an AI upgrade. Amazon may already be working on it. (Business Insider)

• What are AI ‘world models,’ and why do they matter? (TechCrunch)

• Google Challenges Artists To Defy AI Cliches, With Striking Results (Forbes)

Software

• Whisk: Visualize and remix ideas using images and AI (Google Keyword blog)

• Now in Beta: Search panel finds the shot faster with visual search (Adobe)

• Bartleby is an experimental desktop app that can watch your screen, run terminal commands, copy to clipboard, and search the internet. (Bartleby)

Research

• Representing Long Volumetric Video with Temporal Gaussian Hierarchy (SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 project page)

• SplineGS: Robust Motion-Adaptive Spline for Real-Time Dynamic 3D Gaussians from Monocular Video (project page)

• GenEx: Generative an Explorable World (project page)

• Mind the Time: Temporally-Controlled Multi-Event Video Generation (project page)

• Apollo: An Exploration of Video Understanding in Large Multimodal Models (arXiv)

Misc

• Ted Chiang gave a very thoughtful speech on GenAI and Art at the NeurIPS 2024 workshop on GenAI and Creativity. (X)