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Sony's 10,000 AI takedowns; Tech praises SAG/WGA deals; Copyright shapes genAI

• Sony Music has issued nearly 10,000 deepfake takedowns… and other things we learned from Dennis Kooker’s speech about AI. (Music Business Worldwide)

• AI Companies Praise SAG-AFTRA and WGA Contracts: ‘They’ve Done a Great Job’ (Variety)

• Copyright law will shape how we use generative AI (Axios)

• GAIA: Zero-shot Talking Avatar Generation (project page)

• Diffusion Avatars: Deferred Diffusion for High-fidelity 3D Head Avatars (project page)

• Shadows Don’t Lie and Lines Can’t Bend! Generative Models don’t know Projective Geometry...for now (project page)

• ⚡️Energy Transformer (ET)⚡️ A novel architecture combining 3 prominent ideas in AI (X) NeurIPS Paper (arXiv), code (GitHub)

• Added an overlay of generated AI images to the real time LCM custom node for ComfyUI! You can edit the images directly without having to alternately look left and right. (X)

• SDXL-Turbo + Stable Video is nuts. I can't wait to go live with this 🔥 (X)

• I can't show you anything yet, but we are working with two film producers right now that are using Magnific AI to upscale their CGI backgrounds! 🤯 (X)

• Harry Potter x Star Wars by Pixar, Holiday Special (X)