Today in Generative Media

Gen Z is fine with AI influencers; Grief and AI collide; Startups go to Hollywood

• Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows (Mashable)

• When grief and AI collide: These people are communicating with the dead (CNN)

• Startups Go to Hollywood: AI Movies Aren’t Just a Gimmick Anymore (Bloomberg)

• OpenAI's Sora is inspiring human creators, who say they are optimistic it is a long way from replacing them (Business Insider)

• Katy Perry's own mom fell for her Met Gala AI photo. Do you know what to look for? (NPR)

• Why the future must be BYO AI: Model lock-in deters users and stifles innovation (ZDNet)

• Why Generative AI is Doomed (Technology & Marketing Law Blog)

• Fast View Synthesis of Casual Videos (project page)

• RealmDreamer: Text-Driven 3D Scene Generation (project page)

• DreamScene4D: Dynamic Multi-Object Scene Generation from Monocular Videos (project page)

• PointInfinity: Resolution-Invariant Point Diffusion Models (project page)

• STAG4D: Spatial-Temporal Anchored Generative 4D Gaussians (project page)

• An Economic Solution to Copyright Challenges of Generative AI (arXiv)

• If I were to tell you that one day, there would be a set of tools that would allow you to tell any story you ever wanted to tell, would you be opposed to it? (X)