Today in Generative Media

AI threatens the election; AI adult content; FTC seeks to ban AI impersonation

• AI could disrupt the election. Congress is running out of time to respond (CNN)

• Fanvue, an OnlyFans competitor, is betting big on AI-generated adult content. But some creators question its approach. (Business Insider)

• FTC seeks to ban impersonation fraud as AI enables deepfakes (Axios)

• Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI (Ars Technica)

• Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content (The Verge)

• Clarity raises $16 million in Seed funding to defend against deepfakes (CTech)

• Using Traditional CGI to Re-Sculpt Generative AI (Metaphysic blog)

• GaussianObject: Just Taking Four Images to Get A High-Quality 3D Object with Gaussian Splatting (project page)

• GALA3D: Towards Text-to-3D Complex Scene Generation via Layout-guidedGenerative Gaussian Splatting (project page)

• GES: Generalized Exponential Splatting for Efficient Radiance Field Rendering (project page)

• Zero-Shot Unsupervised and Text-Based Audio Editing Using DDPM Inversion (project page)

• Direct Consistency Optimization for Compositional Text-to-Image Personalization (project page)

• DreamMatcher: Appearance Matching Self-Attention for Semantically-Consistent Text-to-Image Personalization (project page)

• MIGC: Multi-Instance Generation Controller for Text-to-Image Synthesis (project page)

• EmoSpeaker: One-shot Fine-grained Emotion-Controlled Talking Face Generation (project page)

• Self-Play Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv)

• PSAvatar: A Point-based Morphable Shape Model for Real-Time Head Avatar Animation with 3D Gaussian Splatting (arXiv)

• The Diffusion Transformer paper… was rejected from CVR2023 for "lack of novelty", accepted at ICCV2023, and apparently forms the basis for Sora. (X)

• We've found generative models do capture interpretable physical concepts & we can extract them without fine-tuning their backbone. (X)

• I made a point and click adventure game demo as a research project on the use of gen AI in a game project. Despite of heavy use of AI, I still had to spend over 300 hours of my own time on coding, shaders, lookdev, scripting and modeling to get this far! (X)