Today in Generative Media

Adobe MAX tires of AI; AI artist Botto at Sotheby's; Second grade deepfake lessons

News and Opinion

• Some Adobe MAX attendees are getting tired of the relentless focus on AI (Creative Bloq)

• A.I. Art Sensation Botto Rings in Its Third Year With a Sotheby’s Sale (ArtNet)

• Commentary: AI is so rampant now that even a second-grade project is a lesson in deepfakes (Los Angeles Times)

• Cheap AI “video scraping” can now extract data from any screen recording (Ars Technica)

• AI manifestos flood the tech zone (Axios)

• Mozilla’s research: Unlocking AI for everyone, not just Big Tech (Mozilla blog)

• Partnering with Blumhouse, creators, and the entertainment industry as we develop Meta Movie Gen (Meta blog)

Software

• Our AI-powered tool doesn’t just sync audio; it captures every nuance of an actor's performance, creating lip movements that match perfectly in any language. (FlawlessAI on LinkedIn)

• New in NotebookLM: Customizing your Audio Overviews and introducing NotebookLM Business (Google Keyword Blog)

  • Google’s NotebookLM Now Lets You Customize Its AI Podcasts (Wired)

• SuperStudio: A playground for accelerating imagination. (Kaiber)

• every video model in one place (X)

Research

• VidPanos: Generative Panoramic Videos from Casual Panning Videos (project page)

• DepthSplat Connecting Gaussian Splatting and Depth (project page)

• MeshUp: Multi-Target Mesh Deformation via Blended Score Distillation (project page)

• L3DG: Latent 3D Gaussian Diffusion (project page)

• LVD-2M: A Long-take Video Dataset with Temporally Dense Captions (project page)

• Here, we introduce our evaluation benchmark "Movie Gen Bench", which includes Movie Gen Video Bench and Movie Gen Audio Bench (GitHub)

• Simplifying, Stabilizing and Scaling Continuous-Time Consistency Models (arXiv)

Misc

• Wow! HeyGen just released today ability to have an AI avatar join a Zoom meeting and interact. (X)

• Adobe absolutely cooked with this "Layout Variation" feature. (X)

• The models in this video were made with Tripo AI using text-to-3D, and the animations were brought to life using Hailuo and Luma Dream. (X)