Today in Generative Media
Anthropic judge blasts settlement; Opinions on AI for artists; GenAI Bible content
News and Opinion
Anthropic Judge Blasts $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (Bloomberg Law)
People Want AI To Help Artists, Not Be The Artist (Scientific American)
Fantasy or faith? One company's AI-generated Bible content stirs controversy (NPR)
FTC Prepares to Question AI Companies Over Impact on Children (Wall Street Journal)
Meta is paying contractors up to $55 an hour to build AI chatbot characters (Business Insider)
Apple Sued by Authors for Copyright Infringement (Publishers Weekly)
The art world finally drew a line in the sand over AI – and not before time (Creative Bloq)
GalaxyCon LLC Announces Sweeping AI Art Ban (Animation Magazine)
The Future of Architectural Renderings Looks Like Movie Making (propmodo)
A World Reshaped by A.I. Needs Museums More Than Ever (New York Times)
The Unions vs AI (Matt Ferguson on Substack)
Bria AI just became the first AI developer worldwide to publish GPAI Code of Practice documentation. (LinkedIn)
Software
Transform any input image into immersive 360-degree panoramic views with this specialized LoRA model (CivitAI)
onediff is an out-of-the-box acceleration library for diffusion models (GitHub)
We are slashing Veo 3 prices by 50%! A single Veo 3 fast video now costs as little as 50 cents (X) [fal.ai]
Research
From Editor to Dense Geometry Estimator (project page)
Im2Haircut: Single-view Strand-based Hair Reconstruction for Human Avatars (project page)
Look Beyond: Two-Stage Scene View Generation via Panorama and Video Diffusion (arXiv)