Today in Generative Media

Photographer loses AI theft claim; AI artist claims theft; Pika 1.5 launches AI effects

News

• Court Rules Against Photographer Who Sued AI Dataset for Copyright Theft (PetaPixel)

• Famous AI Artist Says He’s Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work (Gizmodo)

• Pika 1.5 launches with physics-defying AI special effects (VentureBeat)

• Google NotebookLM leader says more controls coming for AI generated podcasts (VentureBeat)

• Microsoft Paint is getting Photoshop-like generative AI fill and erase features (The Verge)

• OpenAI introduces new tools to fast-track building of AI voice assistants (Reuters)

Software

• SplatViz: This interactive viewer allows you to display and edit 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes in real time (GitHub) Tutorial on YouTube.

• SAM2 Studio: This is a Swift demo app for SAM 2 Core ML models (GitHub)

• Whisper Turbo is a new speech-to-text model that fits the continued trend of distilled models getting smaller and faster while maintaining the same quality as larger models. (Simon Willison’s blog)

• Whisper Large V3 Turbo: Transcribe Audio (HuggingFace)

Research

• Flex3D: Feed-Forward 3D Generation With Flexible Reconstruction Model And Input View Curation (project page)

• RNG: Relightable Neural Gaussians (arXiv)

Misc

• This film in its whole will shake you.. it’s currently 26-min and counting.. this is a short from it.. (X)

• Location scouting in the latent space, flipping through different times and seasons (X)

• This is a very short video about our very long history using technology to tell stories. (X)