Today in Generative Media

Jim Cameron joins Stability AI board; Celebs promote AI safety bill; Fight GenAI hype

News

• James Cameron Joins Stability AI Board of Directors (Variety) James Cameron Joins Board of Stability AI in Coup for Tech Firm (Hollywood Reporter)

• Mark Hamill, Jane Fonda, J.J. Abrams urge Gov. Newsom to sign AI safety bill (Los Angeles Times)

• Generative AI Hype Feels Inescapable. Tackle It Head On With Education (Wired)

• An AI-powered copyright tool is taking down AI-generated Mario pictures (The Verge)

• OpenAI staff upset by company’s horrendous new logo (Futurism)

• Refik Anadol Studio to open DATALAND Museum of AI Arts at The Grand LA in 2025 (Archinect)

Software

• I tried Sudowrite to overcome writer’s block — and I finally finished my novel (Tom’s Guide)

• Figma’s AI-powered app generator is back after it was pulled for copying Apple (The Verge)

• Spotify’s AI playlist feature rolls out to the US and more markets (TechCrunch)

• DepthCrafter: Generating Consistent Long Depth Sequences for Open-world Videos (HuggingFace)

• Updated production-ready Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more (Google Developers Blog)

• Now, you can have authentic, on-demand conversations in your target language. And you're not talking to just anyone... you're talking to Lily! (X)

• FLoD: Integrating Flexible Level of Detail into 3D Gaussian Splatting for Customizable Rendering (GitHub)

Research

• RAG for an LLM-powered hologram (Determined AI)

• MVPGS: Excavating Multi-view Prior for Gaussian Splatting from Sparse Input Views (ECCV 2024, project page)

• Generalizable Human Gaussians (GHG) for Sparse View Synthesis (ECCV 2024, project page)

• Reflecting Reality: Enabling Diffusion Models to Produce Faithful Mirror Reflections (project page)

Misc

• the more interesting question is not "will ai unlock prosperity?" but "why aren't we choosing to do so today?" (this sentiment also rhymes with "ai will unlock filmmaking" etc; if movie cameras in our pockets haven't, the tool isn't the issue) (Threads)

• Congratulations to Justin Tolley, our 2nd place winner in the Whipnotic ad competition! (X)

• You are literally affecting the largest directors minds in the world with what you are creating and they are seeing. (X)

• We made an AI Music Video for the one and only - Snoop Dogg (X)