Today in Generative Media

Ziff Davis sues OpenAI; Nobody noticed Microsoft's AI ad; Creativity in the age of AI

News and Opinion

• Publisher of PCMag and Mashable Sues OpenAI (New York Times)

• Microsoft made an ad with generative AI and nobody noticed (The Verge)

• The Creativity Issue - May/June 2025 - Defining creativity in the Age of AI (MIT Technology Review)

• Revisiting The Humanities In The Age Of AI (Forbes)

• In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource (Ars Technica)

• The AI-generated movie What’s Next opens a fresh debate over AI filmmaking (Polygon)

• "AI slop" is in the eye of the beholder (Axios)

• Science sleuths flag hundreds of papers that use AI without disclosing it (Nature)

Software

• Adobe to launch mobile app for AI image generation tool as OpenAI steps up rivalry (CNBC)

• Big news! Now you can use other AI models in Adobe tools. Currently it's Google Imagen 3, GPT-o4 and FLUX along with our Firefly family of models (designed to be commercially safe). (X)

• Ray2 is coming to Adobe Firefly & Firefly Boards (Luma AI)

• Adobe’s new app helps credit creators and fight AI fakery (The Verge)

• Character.AI unveils AvatarFX, an AI video model to create lifelike chatbots (TechCrunch)

• Flex.2-preview: Open Source 8B parameter Text to Image Diffusion Model with universal control and inpainting support built in. (HuggingFace)

• Google’s AI Overviews now reach more than 1.5 billion people every month (The Verge)

Research

• No Pose, No Problem: Surprisingly Simple 3D Gaussian Splats from Sparse Unposed Images (project page)

• UNI3C: Unifying Precisely 3D-Enhanced Camera and Human Motion Controls for Video Generation (project page)

• Describe Anything: Detailed Localized Image and Video Captioning (project page)

• 🎥 AnyCam: Learning to Recover Camera Poses and Intrinsics from Casual Videos (project page)

• When Gaussian Meets Surfel: Ultra-fast High-fidelity Radiance Field Rendering (arXiv)

• Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers in Machine Learning (arXiv)

Misc

• Pro tip: you can just go on to hugging faces spaces and look at what's trending to know what's hot in AI right now or what's coming up (X)