Today in Generative Media

Big Tech exploits creators; DeepSeek's image models; Elton John talks UK copyright

News and Opinion

• Copyright Under Siege: How Big Tech Uses AI And China To Exploit Creators (Forbes)

• Viral AI company DeepSeek releases new image model family (TechCrunch)

• Elton John backs Paul McCartney in criticising proposed overhaul to UK copyright system (The Guardian)

• DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China (Wired)

• Trump signs executive order on developing artificial intelligence ‘free from ideological bias’ (AP News)

• ‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the Company (Wired)

• Ge Wang: GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable (Stanford)

• The year AI video goes mainstream? (Mike Gioia on Substack)

• When A.I. Passes This Test, Look Out (New York Times)

• AI isn’t very good at history, new paper finds (TechCrunch)

• Which AI to Use Now: An Updated Opinionated Guide (Ethan Mollick on Substack)

Hardware and Software

• Introducing Hailuo T2V-01-Director Model: Control Your Camera Like a Pro! (X)

• 🚀 Janus-Series: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation Models (GitHub)

• Live AI on Meta’s smart glasses is a solution looking for a problem (The Verge)

• Model2Vec is a technique to turn any sentence transformer into a really small static model, reducing model size by 15x and making the models up to 500x faster, with a small drop in performance. (GitHub)

Research

• Relightable Full-body Gaussian Codec Avatars (project page)

• YuE: Open Music Foundation Models for Full-Song Generation (project page)

• DiffVSR: Enhancing Real-World Video Super-Resolution with Diffusion Models for Advanced Visual Quality and Temporal Consistency (project page)

• Audio Texture Manipulation by Exemplar-Based Analogy (project page)

• SyncAnimation: A Real-Time End-to-End Framework for Audio-Driven Human Pose and Talking Head Animation (project page)

• Towards Affordance-Aware Articulation Synthesis for Rigged Objects (project page)

• Exploring Temporally-Aware Features for Point Tracking (project page)