Today in Generative Media
AI in the NYT newsroom; Meta AI copyright grab; GenAI music to hit $3B by 2028
The New York Times is building a team to explore AI in the newsroom (The Verge)
Meta used copyright to protect its AI model, but argues against the law for everyone else (Business Insider)
Generative AI music market to be worth $3Bn by 2028, says report commissioned by SACEM and GEMA. (Music Business Worldwide)
What Can be Done in 59 Seconds: An Opportunity (and a Crisis) (Ethan Mollick on Substack)
ComfyUI-3D-Pack: enables ComfyUI to process 3D inputs (Mesh & UV Texture, etc) using cutting edge algorithms (3DGS, NeRF, Differentiable Rendering, SDS/VSD Optimization, etc.) (GitHub)
Comfy Textures is an Unreal Engine plugin which integrates the editor with ComfyUI. It allows you to quickly create and refine textures for your scene using generative diffusion models. (GitHub)
WhisperKit is a Swift package that integrates OpenAI's popular Whisper speech recognition model with Apple's CoreML framework for efficient, local inference on Apple devices. (GitHub)
InstructIR: High-Quality Image Restoration Following Human Instructions (project page)
BlockFusion: Expandable 3D Scene Generation using Latent Tri-plane Extrapolation (arXiv)
This film wasn’t filmed: ASML harnesses generative Artificial Intelligence to make its latest brand film (ASML press release) Video on YouTube. [ed.note. the numbers in the press release makes no sense, so take it with a grain of salt!]