Today in Generative Media

GenAI spams academic journals; SD3 licensing uproar; Adobe updates AI terms of use

News

• This Week in AI: Generative AI is spamming up academic journals (TechCrunch)

• Licensing Questions Plague Stability AI as SD3 Image Generator Gets Banned (Decrypt)

• Adobe's New Terms of Use: A Win for Creators, but AI Concerns Persist. (X)

• Opinion: As AI is embraced, what happens to the artists whose work was stolen to build it? (Los Angeles Times)

• SIGGRAPH 2024 Technical Papers Awards: Best Papers, Honorable Mentions, and Test-of-Time (SIGGRAPH blog)

• AI Artists vs Traditional Artists -- Can They Unite? | Dustin Hollywood at Imagine AI Live | E52 (YouTube)

Software and Data

• Meta releases flurry of new AI models for audio, text and watermarking (VentureBeat)

• Microsoft drops Florence-2, a unified model to handle a variety of vision tasks (VentureBeat)

• OpenAI upgrades DALL-E 3 instead of rolling out GPT-4o's (much better) imaging capabilities (The Decoder)

• The best AI video editing software (Creative Bloq)

• Augie Studio aims to become the Canva for AI video creation for marketers and enterprise (VentureBeat)

• MonoNPHM is a CVPR2024 Highlight! Plus, we're updating our NPHM dataset with over 500 new 3D head scans, releasing after CVPR . (X)

• Jupyter notebook for Unique3D: High-Quality and Efficient 3D Mesh Generation from a Single Image (GitHub)

Research

• Ranni: Taming Text-to-Image Diffusion for Accurate Instruction Following (CVPR 2024, project page)

• MeshAnything: Artist-Created Mesh Generation with Autoregressive Transformers (project page)

Misc

• Advances in 3D gaussian splatting are breathing new life into volumetric capture - taking an array of 2D cameras and turning them into 'free-viewpoint' video you can explore from any direction. (X)

• I'm now calling this effect the 'Palindromic Reveal' where forward and reversed clips reveal new scenes in a seamless sequence. (X)

• My biggest complaint about using AI to write text is that it is painfully average. Like a pretentious high school sophomore. Is the *average* person a great writer? No. But that is the Internet we trained it on. (X)

• please stop its physically painful (X)

• i can’t stop thinking about this exchange with a russian bot (X)