Today in Generative Media

Photography's renaissance; Meta's AI slop will continue; AI glam bots seize fashion

News

• As A.I. Becomes Harder to Detect, Photography Is Having a Renaissance (New York Times)

• Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves (404 Media)

• Fashion models pushed to the side as AI glam bots take over: ‘It’s about faster content creation’ (New York Post)

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says lack of compute capacity is delaying the company’s products (TechCrunch)

• Tech Giants Are Set to Spend $200 Billion This Year Chasing AI (Bloomberg)

• Even Mark Zuckerberg seems surprised by Meta’s pace of spending on AI (CNBC)

Software

• Advanced Camera Control is now available for Gen-3 Alpha Turbo. (X)

• Decart’s AI simulates a real-time, playable version of Minecraft (TechCrunch)

  • Oasis: an interactive, explorable world model (Etched)

• This impressive AI art tool gives control back to artists and "rethinks how AI art should work" (Creative Bloq)

  • Introducing Blendbox: The AI art creator you wish you had. (Blockade Labs)

• OpenAI’s search engine is now live in ChatGPT (The Verge)

• D-ID launches new high-quality avatars capable of real-time conversations (TechCrunch)

• Recraft V3 (code-named red_panda) is a text-to-image model with the ability to generate long texts, images in a wide list of styles (API on Replicate)

• New Web-Based Software Playbook Integrates AI for Enhanced Rendering and 3D Scenes (NoFilmSchool)

• GitHub Spark: Can we enable anyone to create or adapt software for themselves, using AI and a fully-managed runtime? (GitHub Next blog)

• Patronus AI launches world’s first self-serve API to stop AI hallucinations (VentureBeat)

Misc

• At 12.4 million image-caption pairs, PD12M is the largest public domain image-text dataset to date, with sufficient size to train foundation models while minimizing copyright concerns (HuggingFace)

• Automate Tasks with Machine Learning Workflows in Bifrost for Maya (YouTube)

• Bringing NeRFs to the Latent Space: Inverse Graphics Autoencoder (project page)

• Do you think this is the right messaging or should brands be a bit more tactful when talking about this disruptive technology? (X)

• legacy software companies adding an ai chatbot to their product (X)