Today in Generative Media

Chatbots need tutors; Spot the deepfake; Generative AI threatens translators

• Now Hiring: Sophisticated (but Part-Time) Chatbot Tutors (New York Times)

• Spot the deepfake: The AI tools undermining our own eyes and ears (Politico)

• Survey finds generative AI proving major threat to the work of translators (The Guardian)

• "Top secret" is no longer the key to good intel in an AI world: report (Axios)

• Drake Reacts To A.I. Kendrick Lamar Diss Not Knowing It’s Fake (Vibe)

• Stability AI is giving more developers access to its next-gen text-to-image generator (The Verge)

• MusicGen Web: In-browser text-to-music w/ 🤗 Transformers.js! (HuggingFace)

• Gaussian Splatting: Import, manipulate and render 3D Gaussian Splatting (.ply) files inside After Effects in real-time with GPU. (AEScripts)

• SmartControl: Enhancing ControlNet for Handling Rough Visual Conditions (project page)

• Gaussian Opacity Fields: Efficient and Compact Surface Reconstruction in Unbounded Scenes (project page)

• Consistent Diffusion Meets Tweedie: Training Exact Ambient Diffusion Models with Noisy Data (arXiv). Explainer thread on X.

• The Concept Art Photoshop plugin was updated over the weekend. We fixed a few bugs and added the ability to "favorite" Replicate models. Big new feature drop coming very soon. (X)

• Introducing AI 3D Generation ✨: 🔥 Text to 3D, 🖼️ Image to 3D, 🌳 Remix, 📐 Editor integration & Exports. Available now! http://spline.design/ai-generate (X)

• What if you can seamlessly bring together Midjourney, DALLE-3, Stable Diffusion, and over 30 other neural networks in one workspace? (X)

• People are uploading music to the DSPs that is generated using AI products that don’t reveal their training data, and that therefore may be trained on copyrighted work without permission. This means it will compete with music it may be trained on. (X)