Today in Generative Media

Moonvalley: AI stigma will go away; YouTube fights AI slop; TikTok's racist AI videos

News and Opinion

• Visual Effects Pioneer And Moonvalley Exec Ed Ulbrich On Industry’s Embrace Of AI: “The Stigma Is Going To Be Gone” (Deadline)

• YouTube prepares crackdown on ‘mass-produced’ and ‘repetitive’ videos, as concern over AI slop grows (TechCrunch)

• Racist AI-generated videos are the newest slop garnering millions of views on TikTok (Media Matters)

• OpenAI Says It's Hired a Forensic Psychiatrist as Its Users Keep Sliding Into Mental Health Crises (Futurism)

• Expert Aleksi Hyvärinen Talks at Amman About How AI Is Rewriting Indie Filmmaking (Variety)

• Pixar's chief creative officer says AI is 'the least impressive blah average of things' (Business Insider)

• Unity promises strong AI copyright 'guardrails' after employee conjures Mickey Mouse on stream (Game Developer)

• Why Real Creativity Still Needs Chaos and a Human Touch in the AI Age (Decrypt)

• What comes next for AI copyright lawsuits? (MIT Technology Review)

• Free Lunch Is Over for the AI That Broke the Web (Gizmodo)

• A New Kind of AI Model Lets Data Owners Take Control (Wired)

• How A.I. Made Me More Human, Not Less (New York Times)

• AI and art collide in this engineering course that puts human creativity first (The Conversation)

• I physically recoiled when I saw the new Naked Gun film poster (Creative Bloq)

Software

• Marey Realism v1.5 in ComfyUI – Built on 100% Licensed Content (ComfyUI Blog)

• New Control Models Released! Released three new control models for LTX-Video on HuggingFace (GitHub)

• SmolLM3: smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner (HuggingFace)

Research

• StreamDiT: Real-Time Streaming Text-to-Video Generation (project page)

• 4DSloMo: 4D Reconstruction for High Speed Scene with Asynchronous Capture (project page)

• Rectified Point Flow: Generic Point Cloud Pose Estimation (project page)