Today in Generative Media
AI web browsers; Voiceover AI lawsuit can proceed; AI robots carve statues, buildings
News and Opinion
Is A.I. the Future of Web Browsing? (New York Times)
Federal judge says voice-over artists' AI lawsuit can move forward (BBC)
AI robots can already carve stone statues. Entire buildings are next (Fast Company)
Bad Actors are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods (The American Sunlight Project)
Generative AI is Turning Publishing Into a Swamp of Slop (Paste Magazine)
Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show (The Register)
Join Our Livestream: Inside the AI Copyright Battles (Wired)
Inside an AI Story Lab: Student Voices (Elettra Fiumi on Substack)
Pocoyo's AI Era: My interview with Sixte de Vauplane, CEO of Animaj (Matt Ferguson on Substack)
Software
Introducing Mirage Research Preview: The World's First AI-Native UGC Game Engine Powered by Real-Time World Model (Dynamics Lab)
Add Real-time video avatars to your app or website in minutes. (Simli)
Gemini Embedding now generally available in the Gemini API (Google Developers blog)
Research
ReFlex: Text-Guided Editing of Real Images in Rectified Flow via Mid-Step Feature Extraction and Attention Adaptation (project page)
EXPRESS-Voice: Instant and Accented Identity Cloning at the Frontier of Voice Synthesis (project page)
Generative Panoramic Image Stitching (project page)
RTR-GS: 3D Gaussian Splatting for Inverse Rendering with Radiance Transfer and Reflection (arXiv)
MILo: Mesh-In-the-Loop Gaussian Splatting for Detailed and Efficient Surface Reconstruction (arXiv)