Today in Generative Media

ScarJo wants deepfake ban; AI distorts news; BuzzFeed fights AI social media

News and Opinion

• Scarlett Johansson calls for deepfake ban after AI video goes viral (The Verge)

• AI chatbots are distorting news stories, BBC finds (The Verge)

• BuzzFeed wants to fight AI-driven social media with a platform of its own (The Verge)

• ChatGPT’s Political Views Are Shifting Right, a New Analysis Finds (Gizmodo)

• “Machina Sapiens” the major ephemeral exhibition on AI (The Eye of Photography)

• Sending Sora to Film School (Intelligent Jello)

• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls the AI Action Summit a ‘missed opportunity’ (TechCrunch)

• It’s Time to Worry About DOGE’s AI Plans (The Atlantic)

Software

• Meet Firefly Video Model: AI-Powered creation with unparalleled creative control (Adobe blog)

• Adobe launches subscriptions for Firefly AI (TechCrunch)

• Whisk, a Google Labs experiment, is expanding to more than 100 new countries. (Google Keyword blog)

• Neural Texture Compression (NTC) is an algorithm designed to compress all PBR textures used for a single material together. (GitHub)

• This repository contains the official authors implementation associated with the paper "MeshSplats: Mesh-Based Rendering with Gaussian Splatting Initialization". (GitHub)

• Welcome to Smol Models, a family of efficient and lightweight AI models from Hugging Face. Our mission is to create powerful yet compact models, for text and vision, that can run effectively on-device while maintaining strong performance. (GitHub)

Research

• Matrix3D: Large Photogrammetry Model All-in-One (project page)

• Flow Distillation Sampling: Regularizing 3D Gaussians with Pre-trained Matching Priors (project page)

• Magic 1-For-1 Generating One Minute Video Clips within One Minute (project page)

Misc

• The AI Summit ends in rupture. AI accelerationists want pure expansion—more capital, energy, private infrastructure, no guard rails. Public interest camp supports labor, sustainability, shared data. safety, and oversight. The gap never looked wider. AI is in its empire era. (X)

• Hot take: imagen 3 is now better than midjourney and flux (X)