Today in Generative Media

GenAI copyright crisis; AI linked to layoffs; AI unravels the public web

(OK, I managed to write one more post before vacation!)

• Generative AI in Games Will Create a Copyright Crisis (Wired)

• AI is already linked to layoffs in the industry that created it (CNN Business)

• Public web unravels in AI-driven storm (Axios)

• ‘Don’t use AI detectors for anything important,’ says the author of the definitive ‘AI Weirdness’ blog. Her own book failed the test (Fortune)

• “I Have a Problem With the Stealing of My Material”: A Common Rallying Cry Emerges On AI (Hollywood Reporter)

• Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI (Gizmodo)

• Stability AI CEO: There Will Be No (Human) Programmers in Five Years (Decrypt)

• Midjourney's new weird mode makes AI-generated images even weirder (Decoder)

• Unofficial PyTorch implementation of StyleDrop: Text-to-Image Generation in Any Style (GitHub)

• LEDITS: Real Image Editing with DDPM Inversion and Semantic Guidance (project page). Demo on HuggingFace.

• DisCo: Disentangled Control for Referring Human Dance Generation in Real World (project page)