Today in Generative Media

AI copyright bill reactions; NIST's platform to assess genAI; OpenAI licenses FT

• AI Copyright Bill Thrills Artists. Developers Call It Unworkable (Bloomberg News)

• NIST launches a new platform to assess generative AI (TechCrunch)

• Financial Times signs licensing deal with OpenAI. (The Verge)

• In the AI Economy, There Will Be Zero Percent Unemployment (Reason)

• Google’s DeepMind creates ‘Gecko’, a rigorous new standard for testing AI image generators (VentureBeat)

• Hollywood Talent Agency CAA Tests AI Clones (The Information)

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• No Priors Ep.61 | OpenAI's Sora Leaders Aditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles (YouTube)

• SXSW '24 Talk: CREATIVITY UNLEASHED: The Film, XR, & AI Artist Revolution (YouTube)

• Implementation of 2D Gaussian Splatting for Geometrically Accurate Radiance Fields (GitHub)

• TIP-Editor: An Accurate 3D Editor Following Both Text-Prompts And Image-Prompts (SIGGRAPH 2024, project page)

• DMesh: A Differentiable Representation for General Meshes (project page)

• MotionMaster: Training-free Camera Motion Transfer For Video Generation (project page)

• CodecNeRF: Toward Fast Encoding and Decoding, Compact, and High-quality Novel-view Synthesis (project page)

• 3D Gaussian Splatting with Deferred Reflection (arXiv)

• Material transfer ComfyUI tutorial. (X)

• …as photography matured, so did the understanding of its potential as an artistic medium, mostly because of photographers’ increasing ability to exert control over the photographic process. Control is art. (X)