Today in Generative Media
SAG inks game dev deal with AI guardrails; AI kiss apps; Film of OpenAI board drama
News and Opinion
The cursed world of AI kiss and hug apps (The Verge)
The OpenAI board drama is reportedly turning into a movie (TechCrunch)
OpenAI takes down covert operations tied to China and other countries (NPR)
Don't be fooled into thinking AI is coming for your job - here's the truth (ZDNet)
New Consumer Report Says AI Has Surpassed Social Media, OTAs For Travel Discovery (Travelpulse)
EPA’s new AI tool disagrees with Zeldin on climate change (E&E News)
First copyright trial for AI company set for June 9 in UK High Court. Getty Images v. Stability AI. (ChatGPT Is Eating the World)
Research
Complete Object Removal via Object-Effect Attention (project page)
MiniMax-Remover : Taming Bad Noise Helps Video Object Removal (project page)
Minute-Long Videos with Dual Parallelisms (project page)
Let Them Talk: Audio-Driven Multi-Person Conversational Video Generation (project page)
TalkingMachines: Real-Time Audio-Driven FaceTime-Style Video via Autoregressive Diffusion Models (project page)
Think Before You Diffuse: LLM-Guided Physics-Aware Video Generation (project page)
Direct3D-S2: Gigascale 3D Generation Made Easy with Spatial Sparse Attention (project page)
Cinemo: Consistent and Controllable Image Animation with Motion Diffusion Models (project page)
Attention Distillation: A Unified Approach to Visual Characteristics Transfer (project page)
WeatherEdit Controllable Weather Editing with 4D Gaussian Field (project page)
LayerPeeler: Autoregressive Peeling for Layer-wise Image Vectorization (project page)
HomoGen: Enhanced Video Inpainting via Homography Propagation and Diffusion (CVPR open access)
Keyframe-Guided Creative Video Inpainting (CVPR open access)