Today in Generative Media

LA shouldn't fear AI; Can AI rethink art? Google's AI search vs. news industry

News

• Fear and loathing in Los Angeles over AI. But it doesn’t have to be this way (Yahoo Finance)

• Can A.I. Rethink Art? Should It? (New York Times)

• Google antitrust cases may not be enough to stop AI-powered search from obliterating news industry: experts (New York Post)

• Facebook owner Meta seeks to train AI model on European data as it faces privacy concerns (ABC News)

• The Adobe AI backlash should be a warning to every tech brand (Creative Bloq)

Research

• The Computer Vision Foundation open access proceedings team is proud to announce that the CVPR2024 proceedings is now online (X)

• L-MAGIC: Language Model Assisted Generation of Images with Coherence (CVPR 2024, project page)

• Autoregressive Model Beats Diffusion: Llama for Scalable Image Generation (project page)

• Looking Backward: Streaming Video-to-Video Translation with Feature Banks (project page)

• Interpreting the Second-Order Effects of Neurons in CLIP (project page)

• Vript: A Video Is Worth Thousands of Words (arXiv)

Misc

• Why Does Diffusion Work Better than Auto-Regression? (YouTube)

• Whisper Web: ML-powered speech recognition directly in your browser! (GitHub)

• Chinese AI KLING is breaking the Internet while OpenAI Sora is sleeping. (X)

• Lumina-Next is a stronger and faster high-res text-to-image generation model. It also supports 1D (music) and 3D (point cloud) generation (X)

• GPT-4 creates persuasive political ads: “messages generated by GPT-4 were broadly persuasive, in some cases increasing support for an issue stance by up to 12 percentage points.” (X)

• As amazing as ComfyUI is you should never forget that it has the security level of a glory hole and full user-level access to your system so you must be extremely careful which custom components you install, in particular if you use the convenient "install missing nodes" feature. (X)

• Me: Siri, make me a facepalm emoji. Siri: Here you go (X)