Today in Generative Media
Perplexity's publishers; Swiss AI Jesus; Zack Snyder loves AI; Steven Moffatt doesn't
News
Perplexity expands its publisher program (TechCrunch)
'Deus in machina': Swiss church installs AI Jesus to connect the digital and the divine (NBC News)
Zack Snyder Thinks Hollywood Needs to Get on Board With AI or Get Left Behind (Wired)
Steven Moffat condemns generative AI, says humans are cheaper (AV Club)
The UC Berkeley Project That Is the AI Industry’s Obsession (Wall Street Journal)
Google says its new AI models can identify emotions — and that has experts worried (TechCrunch)
Sundar Pichai says Google Search will ‘change profoundly’ in 2025 (The Verge)
OpenAI’s o1 model sure tries to deceive humans a lot (TechCrunch)
Software
They Said It Couldn’t Be Done (HuggingFace) Today we release Pleias 1.0 models, a family of fully open small language models… These represent the first ever models trained exclusively on open data, meaning data that are either non-copyrighted or are published under a permissible license. These are the first fully EU AI Act compliant models.
Twos is a handy to-do list app with exactly the right amount of AI (The Verge)
fofr / flux-victorian-xmas-cards: Flux fine-tuned on weird old Victorian Xmas cards (Replicate)
Research
Align3R: Aligned Monocular Depth Estimation for Dynamic Videos (project page)
MegaSaM Accurate, Fast and Robust Structure and Motion from Casual Dynamic Videos (project page)
Structured 3D Latents for Scalable and Versatile 3D Generation (project page)
🧹 CleanDIFT: Diffusion Features without Noise (project page)
Imagine360: Immersive 360 Video Generation from Perspective Anchor (project page)
PaliGemma 2: A Family of Versatile VLMs for Transfer (arXiv)