Today in Generative Media

AI is 'Here': Hanks, Wright de-aged; AI announcer at the Olympics; AI data trade group

News

• ‘Here’ Trailer: Tom Hanks and Robin Wright Are De-Aged for Robert Zemeckis’ ‘Risky’ AI Epic (IndieWire)

• NBC to use AI version of announcer Al Michaels’ voice for Olympics recaps (CNN)

• AI dataset licensing companies form trade group (Reuters)

• AI music startup Udio responds to lawsuits by major record labels: ‘our model does not reproduce copyrighted works’ (VentureBeat)

• Toys ‘R’ Us AI-Generated Ad Controversy, Explained (Forbes)

• Mapping media bias: How AI powers a new media bias detector (phys.org)

Software

• AI tools are coming to Gmail, Google Drive, and Firefox (Fast Company)

• Video editing app Captions releases AI edit feature that automatically adds effects to your video (TechCrunch)

• Figma announces big redesign with AI (The Verge)

• I Took Google's New AI Music Tool for a Spin, Here's How It Went (How-To Geek)

• Give Splice one of your own loops and it will now use AI to find a compatible stack of sounds to go with it (Music Radar)

• Viggle's new feature "Move" is now live! … Compared to our previous feature which offers greensreen and white background, Move allows you to keep the original background of the image, without further editing. (X)

• Here's a LLama 3 voice bot that has voice-to-voice response times of ~500ms. (X)

• Florence-2, the new vision foundation model by Microsoft, can now run 100% locally in your browser on WebGPU, thanks to Transformers.js! (X)

Misc

• still can't get over my hairdresser mentioning earlier this week that thirteen customers have brought in AI-generated photos of themselves as templates for how they'd like for their hair to be dyed and styled (X)

• Now I get why OpenAI is keeping ‘advanced voice’ in early access (X)