Today in Generative Media

AI antitrust inquiries cleared; Ashton Kutcher on AI movies; Fake news from AI

• U.S. Clears Way for Antitrust Inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI (New York Times)

• Ashton Kutcher Says Soon ‘You’ll Be Able to Render a Whole Movie’ Using AI: ‘The Bar Is Going to Have to Go Way Up’ in Hollywood (Variety)

• It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop. (New York Times)

• Top news app in US has Chinese origins and ‘writes fiction’ with the help of AI (Yahoo Tech)

• Google’s AI Overview Search Results Copied My Original Work (Wired)

• Meta's AI chatbot says it was trained on millions of YouTube videos. Meta didn't deny it but said the bot could be inaccurate. (Business Insider)

• Seattle gaming startup Charmed lands $500K and reveals new 3D character design tool (GeekWire)

• Introducing Stable Audio Open - An Open Source Model for Audio Samples and Sound Design (Stability)

• Introducing Universal-1: Our most powerful and accurate Speech AI model yet. (AssemblyAI on X)

• We're excited to announce our Research and Art sessions coming to San Francisco on June 27th! (Runway on X)

• You can upload an audio clip of your choice, and extend this clip either forward or backward by 32 seconds using up to 2 minutes of context. (Udio on X)

• Phased Consistency Model (PCM) is an image generation technique that addresses the limitations of the Latent Consistency Model (LCM) in high-resolution and text-conditioned image generation. (HuggingFace)

• Iterative Motion Editing with Natural Language (SIGGRAPH 2024, project page)

• Bilateral Guided Radiance Field Processing (SIGGRAPH 2024, project page)

• Ouroboros3D: Image-to-3D Generation via 3D-aware Recursive Diffusion (project page)

• V-Express: Conditional Dropout for Progressive Training of Portrait Video Generation (project page)

• GECO: Generative Image-to-3D within a SECOnd (project page)

• Who is AI Replacing? The Impact of Generative AI on Online Freelancing Platforms (SSRN) “…the introduction of Image-generating AI technologies led to a significant 17 percent decrease in the number of job posts related to image creation.”

• MoDGS: Dynamic Gaussian Splatting from Casually-captured Monocular Videos (arXiv)

• Self-Calibrating 4D Novel View Synthesis from Monocular Videos Using Gaussian Splatting (arXiv)

• Neural Flow Diffusion Models: Learnable Forward Process for Improved Diffusion Modelling (arXiv)

• We embedded 250,000 works of art 🎨 from The Met using Nomic's new SOTA multimodal embeddings model! (X)

• OpenAI's content licensing deals (X)

• AI-generated character turnarounds might be more useful than I thought. (X)

• I made these little emoji animations using ToonCrafter. Just starting from one emoji and going to another. (X)