Today in Generative Media
Reddit blocks Internet Archive over AI bots; AMC embraces AI; Netflix GenAI guidance
News and Opinion
Reddit blocks Internet Archive to end sneaky AI scraping (Ars Technica)
As AMC Networks Embraces AI, CEO Kristin Dolan Stresses It Is “Technology Play”, Not IP Surrender (Deadline)
Using Generative AI in Content Production (Netflix Studios) This guidance helps filmmakers, production partners, and vendors understand when and how to use GenAI tools in production. It also offers a practical tool for assessing and enabling confident GenAI use when producing content for Netflix.
Music publishers allege Anthropic used BitTorrent to pirate copyrighted lyrics (Music Business Worldwide)
What It’s Like to Brainstorm with a Bot (New Yorker)
The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says (The Register)
No AI Was Used on the Last Shot of ‘Together’ (IndieWire)
Software
Lightcraft’s Spark could finally give filmmakers the "Google Docs of 3D" (Creative Bloq)
Waver 1.0: All in One video generation model with stronger capabilities [Bytedance]
DINOv3: Self-supervised learning for vision at unprecedented scale (Meta)
You can now fine-tune OpenAI gpt-oss for free with our notebook! (X) [Unsloth]
Research
4D Gaussian Splatting SLAM (project page)
Voost : A Unified and Scalable Diffusion Transformer for Bidirectional Virtual Try-On and Try-Off (project page)
ViPE: Video Pose Engine for 3D Geometric Perception (project page)
DreamPrinting: Volumetric Printing Primitives for High-Fidelity 3D Printing (arXiv)