Today in Generative Media

McConnell opposes Senate AI bills; Sony's letter on AI; Gannett's AI summaries

• Senate committee passes three bills to safeguard elections from AI, months before Election Day (The Verge) McConnell opposes bill to ban use of deceptive AI to influence elections (The Hill)

• Beat Check: Music rightsholders reach their ‘or what?’ moment with AI (Music Ally)

• Newspaper conglomerate Gannett is adding AI-generated summaries to the top of its articles (The Verge)

• OpenAI and Reddit Partnership (OpenAI blog)

• Google and OpenAI’s announcements signal the end of the beginning of the AI wars (FastCompany)

• Google Unveils Music AI Sandbox Making Loops From Prompts (CNET)

• Hugging Face is sharing $10 million worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies (The Verge)

• Openwashing /ō-pən-wä-shĭng/: An accusation against some A.I. companies that they are using the “open source” label too loosely. (New York Times)

• CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models (project page)

• Dual3D: Efficient and Consistent Text-to-3D Generation with Dual-mode Multi-view Latent Diffusion (project page)

• Word2World: Generating Stories and Worlds through Large Language Models (arXiv) Code on GitHub.

• We are excited to release a new and improved Single Image-to-3D model, accessible to everyone at https://cube.csm.ai. (X)

• Just wanted to see how crazy I could go with fal.ai workflows. Here's one where it strips down the furniture and objects from a room and redesigns it based on a reference image. (X)

• A sref code that starts as an illustration (baseline, without anything added) can be turned into a photorealistic image! (X)

• Quick test of combining a sketch with Vizcom ai and Leonardo ai style transfer. It's crazy how good theese systems are getting at this, but also interesting to see how much a quick sketch can do in terms of guiding the AI layer compared to text alone. (X)