Today in Generative Media

Media blocking AI training; Hollywood shouldn't dismiss AI; Snapchat's "Dreams"

• Disney, The New York Times and CNN are among a dozen major media companies blocking access to ChatGPT as they wage a cold war on A.I. (CNN Business)

• Hollywood shouldn’t entirely dismiss A.I.–it’s already delivering a new era of movie magic (Fortune)

• Snapchat is jumping on the AI selfie train with ‘Dreams’ (The Verge)

• Google made a watermark for AI images that you can’t edit out (The Verge)

• Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’ (Washington Post)

• Google upgrades Vertex AI to keep pace with the generative AI boom (TechCrunch)

• MagicEdit: High-Fidelity Temporally Coherent Video Editing (project page)

• 200 art mediums using SDXL (Weird Wonderful AI Art blog)

• Improve your fiction writing using ChatGPT, Sudowrite and Claude AI (Geeky Gadgets)