Today in Generative Media

Natasha Lyonne faces AI backlash; Meta plans AI risk assessment; AI Content 2025

News and Opinion

• Natasha Lyonne addresses backlash to her AI "hybrid" movie (AV Club)

• Meta plans to replace humans with AI to assess privacy and societal risks (NPR)

• AI in Content Creation 2025: A global look at how creators, marketers, educators, and teams are building with AI today (WonderCraft)

  • 4 in 5 creatives now use generative AI, and many rely on it from start to finish (eMarketer)

• A.I. Killed the Math Brain (New York Times)

• The future of engineering belongs to those who build with AI, not without it (VentureBeat)

• How AI coding agents could destroy open source software (ZDNet)

• Inside an AI Story Lab, Part III: Sound, Deep Time and Deep Imagination in AI Cinema (Elettra Fiumi on Substack)

• The recent history of AI in 32 otters (Ethan Mollick on Substack)

Software

• Chain-of-Zoom: Extreme Super-Resolution via Scale Autoregression and Preference Alignment (HuggingFace)

• An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for THREE.js: Integrate in your scene with other meshes and splats, fast rendering on all devices, programmable dynamic splat effects, wide format support (ply, spz, splat, ksplat) (Forge)

• Real-time markerless motion capture (CyanPuppets)

• UniTEX: Universal High Fidelity Generative Texturing for 3D Shapes (GitHub)

• We found the secret to use multiple images with FLUX.1 Kontext: Use our Image Stitch node! (X)

• Kontext Chat, Powered by FLUX.1 Kontext on Replicate: Chat with images to edit them. (Replicate)

Research

• Zero-to-Hero: Zero-Shot Initialization Empowering Reference-Based Video Appearance Editing (project page)

• MAGREF: Masked Guidance for Any-Reference Video Generation (project page)

• LODGE: Level-of-Detail Large-Scale Gaussian Splatting with Efficient Rendering (project page)

• FUDOKI: Discrete Flow-based Unified Understanding and Generation via Kinetic-Optimal Velocities (project page)

• WonderPlay: Dynamic 3D Scene Generation from a Single Image and Actions (project page)

• Hallo4: High-Fidelity Dynamic Portrait Animation via Direct Preference Optimization and Temporal Motion Modulation (arXiv)

• PS4PRO: Pixel-to-pixel Supervision for Photorealistic Rendering and Optimization (arXiv)

Misc

• A common theme I keep hearing over and over again: AI creating too much content for us to consume. … Btw, in 1853, warnings about 5,500 new novels for sale felt crazy, like an impossible flood. Did we cap book production? Nope. We built ways to navigate, reviews, libraries, recommendations. It'll be the same with AI. More content, yes, but also smarter ways to find exactly what you want, often built by AI itself. The fear is old, the scale is new, and so are the tools to manage it. (X)

• Here is The Death Zone. An ai short film made completely with Veo 3. (X)