Today in Generative Media

Washington Post offers genAI answers; Spotify gets AI slop; Ben Affleck discusses AI

News

• Ask The Post AI delivers AI-generated answers from published Washington Post reporting. (Washington Post)

• Not even Spotify is safe from AI slop (The Verge)

• Ben Affleck Just Pitched His Own ‘Succession’ Ending When Discussing AI (IndieWire)

• Will Spotify's AI DJ make you listen longer? (NPR)

• AI video models try to mimic real-world physics — but they don't understand it (Tom's Guide)

• Radiance Fields in St. Peter's Basilica (Radiance Fields)

• You can now run the most powerful open source AI models locally on Mac M4 computers, thanks to Exo Labs (VentureBeat)

Software

• AGI News ✨ A daily AI newsletter that's completely sourced by autonomous AI agents.

  • Code on GitHub

• X-Portrait Nodes: Animate portraits with an input video and a reference image using X-Portrait in ComfyUI (GitHub)

• ComfyUi+Tripo makes 2D->3D mesh generation a snap (Threads)

• Introducing hertz-dev, the first open-source base model for conversational audio generation (Standard Intelligence)

• Chinese AI startup takes aim at OpenAI’s Sora with image-to-video tool launch (CNBC)

• Generate your dream logo in 10 seconds! (logo-creator.io) Code on GitHub.

• The “ChatGPT for Video Editing” Tool Eddie AI Releases Automatic Multi-Cam Editing Feature (NoFilmSchool)

• ChatGPT can now read some of your Mac’s desktop apps (TechCrunch)

• Google Maps gets an AI upgrade to compete with Apple (The Week)

• Anthropic’s new AI tools promise to simplify prompt writing and boost accuracy by 30% (VentureBeat)

• Paper Reviewer: Generate a comprehensive review from an arXiv paper, then turn it into a blog post. (GitHub)

Research

• AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably (Nature)

• MBA-SLAM Motion Blur Aware Dense Visual SLAM with Radiance Fields Representation (project page)

• Unimotion: Unifying 3D Human Motion Synthesis and Understanding (project page)

• An Intelligent Interactive Image Editing System (project page)

• BillBoard Splatting (BBSplat): Learnable Textured Primitives for Novel View Synthesis (arXiv)

• 4D Gaussian Splatting in the Wild with Uncertainty-Aware Regularization (arXiv)

Misc

• Introducing, "Migration" from director Jeremy Higgins. An animated short that brings Gen-3 Alpha into Jeremy's traditional animation pipeline. This is the first project to be released from The Hundred Film Fund. (X)

• Gaussian Splatting on Mac and AMD with Brush (YouTube)