Today in Generative Media

WGA deal details; Diller wants new fair use rules; Midjourney's storytelling team

• The WGA reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP (X) My abbreviated summary:

  • AI writing can’t be used to undermine a writer’s contractual credit or pay. 

  • A writer can choose to use AI, but studios can’t require writers to use AI. 

  • Studios must disclose to writers if any source materials were AI-generated.

  • The WGA reserves the right to assert that using members’ writing to train AI is prohibited.

• Barry Diller rips WGA deal with studios, says fair use needs to be redefined to address AI (CNBC)

• Midjourney has a "Storytelling Team" that has been working on new narrative experiences (X)

• VideoDirectorGPT: Consistent Multi-Scene Video Generation via LLM-Guided Planning (project page)

• Deformable 3D Gaussians for High-Fidelity Monocular Dynamic Scene Reconstruction (arXiv)

• Diffusion models trained on *different datasets* can surprisingly generate similar images when fed with the same noise 🤯 (X)

• How every WGA writer feels reading what we got on Artificial Intelligence. (X)