Today in Generative Media

TCL's AI films to push ads; Is Sora trained on Twitch? AI disruption fears hit Adobe

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News and Opinion

• TCL TVs will use films made with generative AI to push targeted ads (Ars Technica)

• It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem (TechCrunch)

• Adobe Drops After Tepid Outlook Stokes AI Disruption Fears (Bloomberg)

• SF tech CEO's billboards are 'dystopian.' That's how he wants it. (SFGate)

• An autistic teen’s parents say Character.AI said it was OK to kill them. They’re suing to take down the app (CNN)

• Generative AI Is My Research and Writing Partner. Should I Disclose It? (Wired)

• Lawsuit Calls Scale AI ‘the Sordid Underbelly of the Generative AI Industry’ CEO Alex (Inc.)

• AI-powered tutor, teaching assistant tested as a way to help educators and students | 60 Minutes (YouTube)

• People prefer A.I. art because people prefer bad art (Max Read on Substack)

Software

• Gemini 2.0: Our latest, most capable AI model yet (Google blog)

  • Google built an AI tool that can do research for you (The Verge)

  • Google Unveils A.I. Agent That Can Use Websites on Its Own (New York Times)

  • Introducing the new Realtime Multimodal API, powered by Gemini 2.0 Flash! You can stream audio, video, and text in, while dynamic tool calls happen in the background (Search, code execution, & function calling). (X)

• Minimal Code for Continuous Flow Matching (X)

• Background Removal Arena: Compare & Test the Best Background Removal Models (HuggingFace)

Research

• MV-DUSt3R+: Single-Stage Scene Reconstruction from Sparse Views In 2 Seconds (project page)

• CoFie: Learning Compact Neural Surface Representations with Coordinate Fields (project page)

• One Diffusion to Generate them All (project page)

• SimVS: Simulating World Inconsistencies for Robust View Synthesis (project page)

• MAtCha Gaussians: Atlas of Charts for High-Quality Geometry and Photorealism From Sparse Views (project page)

• GASP: Gaussian Avatars with Synthetic Priors (project page)

• 4Real-Video: Learning Generalizable Photo-Realistic 4D Video Diffusion (project page)

• Toon3D: Seeing Cartoons from New Perspectives (project page)