Today in Generative Media

AI images in attack ads; Clipdrop launches Uncrop; The Magic in the Machine

• DeSantis Campaign Uses Apparently Fake Images to Attack Trump on Twitter (New York Times). “…forensic experts say [they] are almost certainly realistic-looking “deepfakes” generated by artificial intelligence.”

• Clipdrop Launches Uncrop: The Ultimate Aspect Ratio Editor (Stability.ai)

• The Magic in the Machine: Finding wonder in the technology of storytelling (Ken Liu, Orion Magazine). “The all-encompassing language models of our age are advanced technology, and they are also magic. ”

• Meta’s first generative AI feature will be AI stickers in Messenger (The Verge)

• Generative AI hackathon in Seattle encourages entrepreneurs to tinker with ‘magic wand’ (GeekWire)

• Introducing StarChat Beta β 🤖 Your new coding buddy 🙌 (Twitter). Open and available for commercial use.

• Git-Theta is a Git extension for collaborative, continual, and communal development of machine learning models. (GitHub)

• Tracking Everything Everywhere All at Once (arXiv) OmniMotion (project page).

• Video-ChatGPT: Towards Detailed Video Understanding via Large Vision and Language Models (arXiv)

• Unsupervised Compositional Concepts Discovery with Text-to-Image Generative Models (arXiv)