Today in Generative Media

UK media fight AI copyright plan; ChatGPT takes calls; Edgelord AI makes millions

News and Opinion

• UK arts and media reject plan to let AI firms use copyrighted material (The Guardian)

• ‘Opt-out’ AI rights would let tech companies ‘shirk responsibilities’ on copyright (Press Gazette)

• OpenAI makes ChatGPT available for phone calls and texts (CNBC)

• The Edgelord AI That Turned a Shock Meme Into Millions in Crypto (Wired)

• How AI can empower creators while respecting their rights (Vox)

• How Puma approaches emerging technology like generative AI (Modern Retail)

• Biden plan would encourage AI data centers on federal lands (Washington Post)

• Microsoft’s Sarah Bird: Core pieces are still missing from artificial general intelligence (Financial Times)

• What just happened: A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI (Ethan Mollick on Substack)

Software

• LTX-Video is now officially part of Diffusers! With native support for training code, LoRAs, and quantization, it’s easier than ever to get your personalized video model running on your local GPU. (X)

• ReelMagic is the world’s first multi-agent AI video creation platform that turns story ideas into ready-to-watch, long-form content. (Higgsfield AI)

• Hunyuan works with 12GB VRAM!!! (Reddit)

Research

• Generative Inbetweening through Frame-wise Conditions-Driven Video Generation (project page)

• SnapGen-V: Generating a Five-Second Video within Five Seconds on a Mobile Device (project page)

• LinGen: Towards High-Resolution Minute-Length Text-to-Video Generation with Linear Computational Complexity (project page)

• Using Diffusion Priors for Video Amodal Segmentation (project page)

• Latent-Reframe: Enabling Camera Control for Video Diffusion Model without Training (project page)

• SynCamMaster: Synchronizing Multi-Camera Video Generation from Diverse Viewpoints (project page)

• ObjCtrl-2.5D: Training-free Object Control with Camera Poses (project page)

• LayerFusion: Harmonized Multi-Layer Text-to-Image Generation with Generative Priors (project page)

• Mind the Time: Temporally-Controlled Multi-Event Video Generation (project page)

• EnvGS: Modeling View-Dependent Appearance with Environment Gaussian (project page)

• LiftRefine: Progressively Refined View Synthesis from 3D Lifting with Volume-Triplane Representations (arXiv)

• IDOL: Instant Photorealistic 3D Human Creation from a Single Image (arXiv)

Misc

• Project Odyssey Season 2 has officially launched, and we’re giving you free access to some of the most powerful AI tools in the industry. (X)