Today in Generative Media

The age of AI BS; Adobe's bet on fair AI pays off; Annie Leibovitz talks AI

• The age of AI BS (Business Insider)

• How Adobe’s bet on non-exploitative AI is paying off (MIT Technology Review)

• "Photography itself is not really real… I use all the tools available": Annie Leibovitz talks AI, at her L’Académie des Beaux-arts induction (Digital Camera World)

• New Structure Reference capabilities in Adobe Firefly bring a new level of creative control to ideation (Adobe blog)

• Many Americans think generative AI programs should credit the sources they rely on (Pew Research)

• Adobe’s new GenStudio platform is an AI factory for advertisers (The Verge)

• Artificial intelligence and the emergence of “generative synesthesia” (PsyPost)

• Fable Prism: Where designers control generative AI (Fable)

• Introducing LetzAI V2: A New Chapter in AI Image Generation (LetzAI)

• ComfyUI wrapper node for "champ" (GitHub)

• Gaussian in the Wild: 3D Gaussian Splatting for Unconstrained Image Collections (project page)

• Octree-GS: Towards Consistent Real-time Rendering with LOD-Structured 3D Gaussians (project page)

• latentSplat: Autoencoding Variational Gaussians for Fast Generalizable 3D Reconstruction (project page)

• FlashFace: Human Image Personalization with High-fidelity Identity Preservation (project page)

• GSDF: 3DGS Meets SDF for Improved Rendering and Reconstruction (project page)

• DreamPolisher: Towards High-Quality Text-to-3D Generation via Geometric Diffusion (project page)

• Track Everything Everywhere Fast and Robustly (project page)

• INPC: Implicit Neural Point Clouds for Radiance Field Rendering (project page)

• 2D Gaussian Splatting for Geometrically Accurate Radiance Fields (arXiv)

• SDXS: Real-Time One-Step Latent Diffusion Models with Image Conditions (arXiv)

• Today we're launching this investigation into LAION-5B, the blockbuster dataset behind Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. It's a deep dive into how the dataset was made, and where the images come from. (X)

• The EU's AI Act invalidates the theory of Non-Expressive Use. (X)

• Hugging Face is hosting datasets that facilitate copyright laundering. (X)