Today in Generative Media

Literature under the spell of AI; What kind of bubble is AI? AI takes on Mickey Mouse

• Literature Under the Spell of A.I. (New York Times) “The standardization of mediocrity does not necessarily lead to the death of excellence.”

• Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? (Locus Magazine)

• Early Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain—and AI is already on the case (Ars Technica)

• Why NYT vs. OpenAI will be the copyright fight to watch in 2024 (VentureBeat)

• The Big Backlash Against AI-Generated Art, Explained (Forbes)

• How Nikon, Sony and Canon are fighting deepfakes with new technology (Interesting Engineering)

• Square Enix plans 'aggressive' use of AI to create new forms of content (Engadget)

• Leonardo AI image generator adds new video mode — here’s how it works (Tom’s Guide)

• Open source AI voice cloning arrives with MyShell’s new OpenVoice model (VentureBeat) OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning (project page) Demo on HuggingFace.

• Deblurring 3D Gaussian Splatting (project page)

• DreamTalk: When Expressive Talking Head Generation Meets Diffusion Probabilistic Models (project page)

• An experimental version of IP-Adapter-FaceID: we use face ID embedding from a face recognition model instead of CLIP image embedding (HuggingFace)

• Introducing the Assistive Creativity Program (X)

• Public Domain Jailbreak (Reddit)