Today in Generative Media

YouTube bans some genAI; Game voice actors decry AI deal; Creating the iPhone of AI

• YouTube cracks down on AI content that ‘realistically simulates’ deceased children or victims of crimes (TechCrunch)

• Gaming voice actors blindsided by 'garbage' union AI deal (BBC)

• Startups Are Racing to Create the iPhone of AI (Time)

• If you're gonna use AI-made stuff in your game, you better tell us, says Steam (The Register)

• AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’ (Variety)

• The Misalignment Museum (San Francisco) is a place to learn about Artificial Intelligence and reflect on the possibilities of technology through thought-provoking art pieces and events. [thanks for the pointer, Mark Christiansen!]

• Whisper-Zero: A complete rework of Whisper ASR that eliminates hallucinations and drastically improves accuracy. Built using over 1.5 million hours of audio, including phone and noisy data. (Gladia.io)

• HAvatar: High-fidelity Head Avatar via Facial Model Conditioned Neural Radiance Field (project page)

• ReplaceAnything as you want: Ultra-high quality content replacement (project page). Demo on HuggingFace.

• Improving the Stability of Diffusion Models for Content Consistent Super-Resolution (project page)

• Jump Cut Smoothing for Talking Heads (project page)

• This is the ChatGPT moment for 3D objects generation! All objects were created by LumaAI (X)