Today in Generative Media
Wired tests ethical genAI music; Google's genAI video presos; IATSE AI protections
News and Opinion
The New ‘Ethical’ AI Music Generator Can’t Write a Halfway Decent Song (Wired)
Google tests out Gemini AI-created video presentations (The Verge)
How IATSE’s AI Protections Are More ‘Evolved’ Than the Other Guilds’ (IndieWire)
These IATSE Artists Are Voting ‘No’ on Their Next Contract, and AI Is to Blame (The Wrap)
Job seekers are using controversial AI 'teleprompter' apps to 'crush' their interviews (Business Insider)
Seeing is not Believing with AI (Mike Gioia on Substack)
Mango creates the first campaign generated by artificial intelligence for its Teen line (Mango Fashion Group)
Research
Mile-High AI: NVIDIA Research to Present Advancements in Simulation and Gen AI at SIGGRAPH (NVIDIA blog)
Dynamic Neural Radiance Field From Defocused Monocular Video (ECCV 2024, GitHub)
RodinHD: High-Fidelity 3D Avatar Generation with Diffusion Models (ECCV 2024, project page)
TCAN: Animating Human Images with Temporally Consistent Pose Guidance Using Diffusion Models (project page)
RRM: Relightable assets using Radiance guided Material extraction (CGI 2024, arXiv)
PanDORA: Casual HDR Radiance Acquisition for Indoor Scenes (project page)
CopyBench: Measuring Literal and Non-Literal Reproduction of Copyright-Protected Text in Language Model Generation (project page)
Tailor3D: Customized 3D Assets Editing and Generation with Dual-Side Images (project page)
Read, Watch and Scream! Sound Generation from Text and Video (project page)
Mira: A Mini-step Towards Sora-like Long Video Generation (project page)
MiraData: A Large-Scale Video Dataset with Long Durations and Structured Captions (arXiv)
Solutions to Deepfakes: Can Camera Hardware, Cryptography, and Deep Learning Verify Real Images? (arXiv)
Thanks for the inclusion. These are always such richly informative lists.