Today in Generative Media
Removing 230 protections from AI; No copyrights (again) for genAI; Korus for AI music
Even If You Hate Both AI And Section 230, You Should Be Concerned About The Hawley/Blumenthal Bill To Remove 230 Protections From AI (Above the Law)
Copyright Office Affirms its Fourth Refusal to Register Generative AI Work (IP Watchdog)
Deadmau5-founded startup Korus taps into AI for music creation (TechCrunch)
Opinion: AI is forcing teachers to confront an existential question (Washington Post)
Most companies using AI are ‘lighting money on fire,’ says Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince (Fortune)
Imagen 2’s powerful text-to-image technology is available for developers and Cloud customers via the Imagen API in Google Cloud Vertex AI (Google DeepMind)
Introducing Segmind Vega: Compact model for Real-time Text-To-Image (Segmind) 100ms image generation at 1024x1024.
Journalist x Large Language Models | Google Lab Sessions (YouTube)
Upscale-A-Video: Temporal-Consistent Diffusion Model for Real-World Video Super-Resolution (project page)
FreeControl: Training-Free Spatial Control of Any Text-to-Image Diffusion Model with Any Condition (project page)
CCM: Adding Conditional Controls to Text-to-Image Consistency Models (project page)
Outfit Anyone: Ultra-high quality virtual try-on for Any Clothing and Any Person (project page)
UpFusion: Novel View Diffusion from Unposed Sparse View Observations (project page)
Nuvo: Neural UV Mapping for Unruly 3D Representations (project page)
COLMAP-Free 3D Gaussian Splatting (project page)
Gaussian-SLAM: Photo-realistic Dense SLAM with Gaussian Splatting (project page)