Today in Generative Media

China's AI disinfo; AI in marketing; Google requires AI disclosure in election ads

• Suspected Chinese operatives using AI generated images to spread disinformation among US voters, Microsoft says (CNN)

• Artificial Intelligence Is Taking Over Marketing (Forbes)

• Google to require disclosure for AI in election ads (Axios)

• Artists sign open letter saying generative AI is good, actually (TechCrunch)

• The 100 Most Influential People in AI (Time)

• Midjourney generates $200 million in revenue and adds Web support with v6 (The Decoder)

• New AI Photo App Aims to Give Users ‘Perfect Pictures’ of Themselves (PetaPixel)

• AI Art and its Impact on Artists (AIES’23). Full text open access.

• SyncDreamer: Generating Multiview-consistent Images from a Single-view Image (project page)

• ProPainter: Improving Propagation and Transformer for Video Inpainting (arXiv)

• AI Grant’s second batch of companies (X)