Today in Generative Media

Hollywood GenAI: Threat or opportunity? What changes? Iger: 'Embrace the Change'

• GenAI in Hollywood: Threat or Opportunity? (Doug Shapiro on Substack)

• Will generative AI change everything for filmmaking? (Freethink)

• Bob Iger: Hollywood Storytellers Need to ‘Embrace the Change’ Driven by Tech Innovation (Variety)

• Adobe scolded for selling ‘Ansel Adams-style’ images generated by AI (The Verge)

• Google’s new image generation tool shows how perceptions of AI in creative work are evolving (Fast Company)

• Beauty in the AI age (Dove)

• The CEO of Zoom wants AI clones in meetings (The Verge)

• Photo-SLAM: Real-time Simultaneous Localization and Photorealistic Mapping for Monocular, Stereo, and RGB-D Cameras (CVPR 2024, project page)

• FaceLift: Semi-supervised 3D Facial Landmark Localization (CVPR 2024, project page)

• Neural Gaussian Scale-Space Fields (SIGGRAPH 2024, project page)

• Relightable and Animatable Neural Avatar from Sparse-View Video (project page)

• X-VILA: Cross-Modality Alignment for Large Language Model (arXiv)

• PLA4D: Pixel-Level Alignments for Text-to-4D Gaussian Splatting (arXiv)

• FreeSplat: Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting Towards Free-View Synthesis of Indoor Scenes (arXiv)

• Make a song from any sound. Coming soon 🎧 (X)

• The before and after of this video. Top is ViggleAI and the bottom is it being ran through Animatediff in ComfyUI (X)

• So much for, "We require artists, writers, and creatives contributing to the Magic TCG to refrain from using AI generative tools to create final Magic products." eh Wizards? (X)

• I think the artists in this thread are struggling with the misconception that AI is automating the creative process, when really it’s just a tool that eases execution in the creative process. (X)

• Gemini matching socks.🧦🧦 (X)