Today in Generative Media

Hollywood fights celeb deepfakes; AI suit against Meta; Bluesky's AI consent proposal

News and Opinion

• Celebrity AI deepfakes are flooding the internet. Hollywood is pushing Congress to fight back (CNN)

• Judge allows authors’ AI copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forward (TechCrunch)

• Bluesky is weighing a proposal that gives users consent over how their data is used for AI (TechCrunch)

• Ajay Devgn Launches Generative AI Storytelling Venture Prismix (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)

• A popular plagiarism checker has pulled a big about-face on AI for students (Business Insider)

• I have been an AI researcher for 40 years. What tech giants are doing to book publishing is akin to theft (The Guardian)

• Deepfakes of Singapore PM Used to Sell Crypto, Residency Program (Bloomberg)

• Hollywood’s New AI Studios, Time Travel, And A Critterz Movie (Forbes)

• What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI (AP News)

• “Learn AI” is “Learn To Code” All Over Again (Inc.)

• US drops bid to make Google sell AI investments in antitrust case (Reuters)

Software and Research

• Peakto is a Powerful AI-Driven Media Manager for macOS (Cyme)

• Robust 3D Shape Reconstruction in Zero-Shot from a Single Image in the Wild (project page)

• Kiss3DGen: Repurposing Image Diffusion Models for 3D Asset Generation (project page)

• Geometry-Aware Diffusion Models for Multiview Scene Inpainting (project page)

• Difix3D+: Improving 3D Reconstructions with Single-Step Diffusion Models (nvidia.com)

• InstaFace: Identity-Preserving Facial Editing with Single Image Inference (arXiv)

• GenVDM: Generating Vector Displacement Maps From a Single Image (arXiv)

• Single-image Reflectance and Transmittance Estimation from Any Flatbed Scanner (arXiv)