Today in Generative Media

The Atlantic's deal with OpenAI; GenAI impact overstated; AI funnier than humans

News and Opinion

• Why The Atlantic signed a deal with OpenAI (The Verge)

• Reality Check: Generative AI’s Impact May Be Overstated, For Now (Forbes)

• AI-generated jokes funnier than those created by humans, University of Southern California study finds (CBS News)

• Chum King Express: The man behind the AI gaffes at Sports Illustrated and USA Today has a yearslong history of filling the internet with garbage. (The Verge)

• The sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet' revealed by AI (BBC)

• AI is not "democratizing creativity." It's doing the opposite (Brian Merchant blog)

Software

• Topaz Labs’ Cinema-Grade Video AI Pro Platform Upscales, Smooths, and Stabilizes Footage (PetaPixel)

• I'm particularly excited about Gen-3 Alpha's ability to be fine-tuned for specific 2D and 3D animation styles, allowing for more controlled and stylized characters, colors, and environments. (X)

• Audio Isolation Removes background noise from audio (ElevenLabs)

Research

• ColorPeel: Color Prompt Learning with Diffusion Models via Color and Shape Disentanglement (ECCV 2024, project page)

• Rasterized Edge Gradients: Handling Discontinuities Differentiably (ECCV 2024, arXiv)

• LaRa Efficient Large-Baseline Radiance Fields (ECCV 2024, project page)

• Rolling Diffusion Models (ICML 2024, arXiv)

• Video Diffusion Alignment via Reward Gradient (project page)

• MVSplat: Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting from Sparse Multi-View Images (project page)

• FlashAttention-3: Fast and Accurate Attention with Asynchrony and Low-precision (project page)

• Reference-based Controllable Scene Stylization with Gaussian Splatting (arXiv)

Misc

• Call for Papers: Special Issue on Generative AI for Computer Graphics (IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications)

• I continue to be alarmed at the progress of proposed California regulation SB 1047 and the attack it represents on open source and more broadly on AI innovation (X)

• Things that have a high probability of being true for media & entertainment over the short term (~24 months)… (X)