Today in Generative Media

Pause the AI hype; Adobe manages AI ethics; What to do when AI takes your voice

• Press Pause on the Silicon Valley Hype Machine (New York Times)

• How Adobe manages AI ethics concerns while fostering creativity (ZDNet)

• What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice? (New York Times)

• Google still hasn’t fixed Gemini’s biased image generator (TechCrunch)

• SIGGRAPH 2024 Program Announced (RadianceFields.com) - a summary of NeRF-related papers.

• Gradio brings you UnifiedAudio for seamless voice-to-voice app development. (X)

• New image editor Anifusion makes it easy to turn yourself into a waifu from just one photo! (X)

• Dream2DGS is a tool for text/image to 3D generation based on 2D Gaussian Splatting and DreamGaussian. (GitHub)

• Diffusion Texture Painting (SIGGRAPH 2024, project page)

• Compositional Text-to-Image Generation with Dense Blob Representations (ICML 2024, project page)

• There are only three AIs everyone seems to mention, they are all from movies, and they overtly or subtly shape everyone’s views of what AIs can do: HAL 9000, Terminator/Skynet, and Samantha from Her. It’s a case where science fiction is limiting, not expanding, our imaginations. (X)

• The primary way ChatGPT helps me with writing tasks is I ask it to produce a first draft, and it's so terrible that I go "jesus, I can do better than THAT" and throw it away and write the whole thing from scratch. (X)