Today in Generative Media

Time to prep for AI; Meta's nightmarish AI feed; Free speech for Character.AI chatbots

News and Opinion

• If you haven’t been worrying about AI, it’s time to start preparing (Washington Post)

• Meta’s AI app is a nightmarish social feed (The Verge)

• Character.AI opens a back door to free speech rights for chatbots (Mashable)

• Netflix debuts its generative AI-powered search tool (TechCrunch)

• Google’s AI image-to-video generator launches on Honor’s new phones (The Verge)

• An ex-Google AI ethicist and a UW professor want you to know AI isn't what you think it is (Business Insider)

• How generative AI is playing out in the media industry (Computer Weekly)

• AI Isn’t Just a Tool—It’s a Test (Psychology Today)

• Bringing 3D shoppable products online with generative AI (Google Research blog)

Software

• Google AI for game developers (Google Developers blog)

• SAM-HQ is an enhancement to the original SAM model that produces significantly higher quality segmentation masks while maintaining SAM’s original promptable design, efficiency, and zero-shot generalizability. (HuggingFace)

• llama.cpp supports multimodal input (GitHub)

• MLX-Audio v0.2.0 is here! (X)

Research

• SVAD: From Single Image to 3D Avatar via Synthetic Data Generation with Video Diffusion and Data Augmentation (project page)

• MeshGen: Generating PBR Textured Mesh with Render-Enhanced Auto-Encoder and Generative Data Augmentation (project page)

• Introducing Continuous Thought Machines (project page)

• High Dynamic Range Novel View Synthesis with Single Exposure (arXiv)

• Rethinking Score Distilling Sampling for 3D Editing and Generation (arXiv)

• Person-In-Situ: Scene-Consistent Human Image Insertion with Occlusion-Aware Pose Control (arXiv)

• Geometry-Aware Texture Generation for 3D Head Modeling with Artist-driven Control (arXiv)

• Real-Time Person Image Synthesis Using a Flow Matching Model (arXiv)

Misc

• Move over lithophane: 3D printed 3D photos with Gaussian splats (HackADay)

• After a few days work, a working multi-agent system where an Orchestrator leads a Screenwriter, Producer, Secretary, and Human agent to work together to define a screenplay outline using a series of steps I've defined. (X)