Today in Generative Media

Adobe AI in Photoshop and Illustrator; Don't let "prompt-jockeys" take control

• The next generation of generative AI is now in Photoshop (Adobe blog). Adobe claims its new image-generation model is its best yet (TechCrunch)

• Adobe Illustrator to get Photoshop's most popular AI tools (Creative Bloq)

• AI art is only a threat if we let "prompt-jockeys" take control (Creative Bloq)

• Starting today, Phi-3-mini, a 3.8B language model is available on Microsoft Azure AI Studio, Hugging Face, and Ollama. (Microsoft Azure blog)

• FaceFolds: Meshed Radiance Manifolds for Efficient Volumetric Rendering of Dynamic Faces (I3D, project page)

• HashPoint: Accelerated Point Searching and Sampling for Neural Rendering (CVPR 2024, project page)

• GaussianTalker: Speaker-specific Talking Head Synthesis via 3D Gaussian Splatting (arXiv)

• The results are in for the Pika Labs x ElevenLabs filmFAST competition. (X)

• Introducing the “AI on The Lot” Gen AI Filmmaking Competition! (X)

• This James Bond trailer featuring AI-generated visuals and dialogue of Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie has over 3.6 million views despite being fake. (X)