Today in Generative Media

Some newspapers sue OpenAI, others make deals; Authors feed AI their own writing

• Major U.S. newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement (Axios)

• Publishers Give OpenAI Their Content for Top Spot in ChatGPT’s Answers (Gizmodo)

• AI is contentious among authors. So why are some feeding it their own writing? (NPR)

• UTA Signs Filmmaking Collective shy kids (Deadline)

• LoG utilizes a single RTX 4090 for training highly realistic urban-scale models and for their real-time rendering. (GitHub)

• Upload two images -- input image and material exemplar. ZeST extracts the material from the exemplar and cast it onto the input image following the original lighting cues. (HuggingFace)

• MotionLCM: Real-time Controllable Motion Generation via Latent Consistency Model (project page)

• SAGS: Structure-Aware 3D Gaussian Splatting (project page)

• InstantFamily: Masked Attention for Zero-shot Multi-ID Image Generation (arXiv)

• [New open source release]: AI Raspberry Pi cat detection and narration 🐈😼 Because my cats need a full time AI David Attenborough to narrate their lives. (X)