Today in Generative Media

New AI safety institute; SAG awaits response on AI issues; Google AI for ad images

• Politicians commit to collaborate to tackle AI safety, US launches safety institute (TechCrunch)

• SAG-AFTRA Waits for Response From AMPTP as AI and Numerous Other Issues Remain Unresolved (Variety)

• Google launches generative AI tools for product imagery to US advertisers and merchants (TechCrunch)

• The Beatles new song "Now and Then" used AI to lift out John Lennon's voice (Quartz)

• Shaping AI image gen through fast, gestural, and painterly 3D turns out to be pretty powerful (X)

• 1. Prompting a gingerbread, t-pose with LumaLabs’ Genie

  2. Rigging and animating in Adobe Mixamo (X)

• Testing LumaLabsAI new Text to 3D model. It's fun. (X)

• The thing about LLMs that make them unintuitive is that analogizing them to having a scifi AI is less useful than thinking of them as infinite copies of some guy named Steve, a grad student who is great at coding & art and is widely-read, but makes up stuff when he is pressed. (X)