Today in Generative Media

AI overflows StackOverflow; Publishers' copyright warning; "New" Beatles recordings

• Stack Overflow Moderators Are Striking to Stop Garbage AI Content From Flooding the Site (Vice)

• Publishers’ group warns that generative AI content could violate copyright law (Marketing Brew)

• YouTuber Dae Lims creates “new” Beatles collabs from solo recordings using AI. “Grow Old With Me,” and “New (ft. John Lennon)”

• Japan Declares AI Training Data Fair Game and ‘Will Not Enforce Copyright’ (PetaPixel). (My previous reading of the translated interview is that this is an exaggeration of what the official actually stated, but the original seems to be offline now.)

• AI Everywhere, All at Once: It’s time to get serious about regulating artificial intelligence (IEEE Spectrum)

• If you're a journalist who covered AI doomer calls for regulation, now you must cover what is actually going on with AI regulation. (Twitter)

• I asked the AI to generate original game mechanics for video games. (Ethan Mollick on Twitter)

• VideoComposer: Compositional Video Synthesis with Motion Controllability (Project page)

• Probabilistic Adaptation of Text-to-Video Models (arXiv)

• The Surprising Effectiveness of Diffusion Models for Optical Flow and Monocular Depth Estimation (arXiv)

• HeadSculpt: Crafting 3D Head Avatars with Text (arXiv)