Today in Generative Media
Film editors, game workers face AI; Laws vs. deepfakes; Perplexity pays publishers
News
Will A.I. Upend White-Collar Work? Consider the Hollywood Editor. (New York Times)
The Video Game Industry Is More Successful Than Ever. Why Are the Workers Treated Like Garbage? (Slate)
Lawmakers want to carve out intimate AI deepfakes from Section 230 immunity (The Verge)
Microsoft calls for new laws on AI-generated deepfakes (Fast Company)
Perplexity is cutting checks to publishers following plagiarism accusations (The Verge)
Why We’re Partnering With Perplexity (Wordpress blog)
I Got ‘Professional’ AI Headshots to See if Photographers Should Worry (PetaPixel)
Software
OpenAI starts rolling out its Her-like voice mode for ChatGPT (The Verge)
Meta moves on from its celebrity lookalike AI chatbots (The Verge)
Our New AI Model Can Segment Anything – Even Video (Meta blog)
Introducing SAM 2: The next generation of Meta Segment Anything Model for videos and images (Meta AI)
How to use Google Photos AI editing tools, now available to everyone (Google blog)
You can now turn still images into AI videos with Runway Gen-3 Alpha (VentureBeat)
Autodesk announces AI workflows for artists and producers at SIGGRAPH 2024 (Autodesk blog)
Wix’s AI will now write whole blog posts for you (The Verge)
Research
Matting by Generation (SIGGRAPH 2024, project page)
VRMM: A Volumetric Relightable Morphable Head Model (SIGGRAPH 2024, project page)
HQ3DAvatar: High Quality Implicit 3D Head Avatar (SIGGRAPH 2024, project page)
InvertAvatar: Incremental GAN Inversion for Generalized Head Avatars (SIGGRAPH 2024, project page)
Cycle3D: High-quality and Consistent Image-to-3D Generation via Generation-Reconstruction Cycle (project page)
Bridging the Gap: Studio-like Avatar Creation from a Monocular Phone Capture (project page)
Mixture of Nested Experts: Adaptive Processing of Visual Tokens (arXiv)