Today in Generative Media
Can you tell what's real? AI in Chinese film and graphic arts; The Velvet Sundown is AI
News and Opinion
A.I. Videos Have Never Been Better. Can You Tell What’s Real? (New York Times) [Editorial brag: I got 10/10 correct! But I may have just gotten lucky on some of them…]
AI is controversial in Hollywood. For China’s film business, it’s no holds barred (Los Angeles Times)
Graphic artists in China push back on AI and its averaging effect (The Verge)
Spotify’s latest breakout band The Velvet Sundown appears to be AI-generated – and fans aren’t happy (TechRadar)
Creator of "Indie Band" Who Insisted It Wasn't AI-Generated Just Admitted the Truth (Futurism)
Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping (TechCrunch)
Apprentice or Adversary? Judges Split on AI and Copyright (Copyright Lately)
How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era? (New York Times) “The growth in software engineering jobs may decline, but the total number of people involved in programming will increase…”
Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity (Quanta Magazine)
Software
VFX relighting with WAN and Nuke (LinkedIn)
Research
X-UniMotion: Animating Human Images with Expressive, Unified and Identity-Agnostic Motion Latents (project page)
EditP23: 3D Editing via Propagation of Image Prompts to Multi-View (project page)
SpatialTrackerV2: 3D Point Tracking Made Easy (project page)
BlenderFusion: 3D-Grounded Visual Editing and Generative Compositing (project page)
EX-4D: EXtreme Viewpoint 4D Video Synthesis via Depth Watertight Mesh (project page)
SynMotion: Semantic-Visual Adaptation for Motion Customized Video Generation (project page)