Today in Generative Media

AI stock images beat photos, AI chatbots improvise; Gen2 available on RunwayML

• AI Images Are Outperforming Photos on Adobe Stock (PetaPixel)

• AI Chatbots Are Doing Something a Lot Like Improv (Time).

• Gen2 has launched and is now available on RunwayML directly (rather than just in their Discord), along with pricing, which appears to be the same as Gen1. (Twitter)

• Recraft — generate stunning vector art, illustrations and 3D images.

• 🤯 The most amazing QR codes you have ever seen - and yes, they work! (Stable Diffusion + ControlNet) (Twitter)

• Tafi announced their AI Text-to-3D-character engine.

• Mega-TTS: Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech at Scale with Intrinsic Inductive Bias (arXiv)

• Recognize Anything: A Strong Image Tagging Model (arXiv)

• Emergent Correspondence from Image Diffusion (arXiv)

• LLMs can now fit into your phone. (Twitter)

• …eventually, the soldiers captured them using ropes and chains. (Twitter)