Today in Generative Media

Future of AI in book publishing; Etsy's genAI seller guidelines; AI interior design apps

News

• Is AI the Bitter End—or the Lucrative Future—of Book Publishing? (Esquire)

• Etsy adds AI-generated item guidelines in new seller policy (TechCrunch)

• AI design apps made my new apartment look odd (The Verge)

• Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about it (The Conversation)

Research

• MVSGaussian Fast Generalizable Gaussian Splatting Reconstruction from Multi-View Stereo (ECCV 2024, project page)

• 3D Gaussian Ray Tracing: Fast Tracing of Particle Scenes (project page)

• 4DiM: Controlling Space and Time with Diffusion Models (project page)

• Video-to-audio generation with hidden alignment (project page)

• The Unmet Promise of Synthetic Training Images: Using Retrieved Real Images Performs Better (arXiv)

• VEnhancer: Generative Space-Time Enhancement for Video Generation (arXiv)

• Neural Localizer Fields for Continuous 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation (arXiv)

• PaliGemma: A versatile 3B VLM for transfer (arXiv) PaliGemma report will hit arxiv tonight. (X)

• TL;DR: it's all about the loss surfaces (X) [a long, technical post about training GANs more robustly]

Misc

• People who say that AI artist are lazy never tried to make a 7 min AI Film (X)

• In a room, kitten becomes man, becomes toaster, becomes robot. (X)

• AI generated McDonalds ad by MetaPuppet (X)

• Poodle or fried chicken? (X) Muffin or Chihuahua? (X)