Today in Generative Media
SAG's AI voice deal with Narrativ; SF fights vs. deepfakes; AI will change filmmaking
News
SAG-AFTRA Strikes Groundbreaking AI Digital Voice Replica Pact With Startup Firm Narrativ (Variety)
San Francisco Moves to Lead Fight Against Deepfake Nudes (New York Times)
Filmmakers say AI will change the art — perhaps beyond recognition (TechCrunch)
See why AI detection tools can fail to catch election deepfakes (Washington Post)
Artists celebrate as copyright infringement case against AI image generators moves forward (VentureBeat)
AI is changing video games — and striking performers want their due (NPR)
A.L.S. Stole His Voice. A.I. Retrieved It. (New York Times) Our new study is out today in the New England Journal of Medicine! We demonstrate a speech neuroprosthesis that decodes the attempted speech of a man with ALS into text with 97.5% accuracy, enabling him to communicate with his family, friends, and colleagues in his own home. (X)
Forget the bubble, AI is here to stay in the creative sectors (Creative Bloq)
AI meets colonialism: Germany develops new research tool (Deutsche Welle)
Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator (TechCrunch)
Software
Midjourney releases new unified AI image editor on the web (VentureBeat)
Google Gemini’s voice chat mode is here (The Verge)
Google’s upgraded AI image generator is now available (The Verge) Imagen 3 (arXiv)
How (and When) to Use Gemini AI in Gmail and Google Docs (Gizmodo)
Incredible new AI 3D model generator could transform character design (Creative Bloq)
Demo of: VGGHeads: A Large-Scale Synthetic Dataset for 3D Human Heads (HuggingFace) The model performs simultaneous heads detection and head meshes reconstruction from a single image in a single step.
A tarot card LoRA trained with the public domain card set of Raider Waite 1920. (HuggingFace)
Research
HeadGAP: Few-shot 3D Head Avatar via Generalizable GAussian Priors (project page)
UniPortrait: A Unified Framework for Identity-Preserving Single- and Multi-Human Image Personalization (project page)