Today in Generative Media

AI reporter gets fired; School OK'd to punish for AI use; AI venting boosts well-being

News

• The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired (Wired)

• School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules (Ars Technica)

• AI-assisted venting can boost psychological well-being, study suggests by (PsyPost)

• How AI regulation in California, Colorado and beyond could threaten U.S. tech dominance (CNBC)

• Silicon Valley CEO warns ‘absolutely there’s a bubble’ in AI valuations: ‘Nobody would be surprised’ if OpenAI ‘disappeared next Monday’ (Fortune)

• Apple’s True Conversational ‘LLM Siri’ May Not Arrive on iPhones Until 2026 (Gizmodo)

• How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test? (Scott Alexander on Substack)

• AI Thriller Spec Script Snapped Up in $3M Sale to Fifth Season, Makeready (Exclusive) (Hollywood Reporter)

Software

• YouTube Shorts’ Dream Screen feature can now generate AI video backgrounds (TechCrunch)

• LTXV: The first real-time AI video generation open source model (Lightricks)

  • LTXV day-1 Native Support in ComfyUI (comfy.org)

• Today, we are excited to release FLUX.1 Tools, a suite of models designed to add control and steerability to our base text-to-image model FLUX.1, enabling the modification and re-creation of real and generated images. (Black Forest Labs)

  • Day 1 Support for Flux Tools in ComfyUI (comfy.org)

• We explore the Reward Backpropagation technique 1 2 to optimize the generated videos by CogVideoX-Fun-V1.1 for better alignment with human preferences (HuggingFace)

• GPT-4o got an update The model’s creative writing ability has leveled up–more natural, engaging, and tailored writing to improve relevance & readability. (X)

• FLUX.1-dev-IP-Adapter (HuggingFace)

  • ComfyUI-IPAdapter-Flux (GitHub)

Research

• JoyVASA: Portrait and Animal Image Animation with Diffusion-Based Audio-Driven Facial Dynamics and Head Motion Generation (project page)

• DiffusionGS: Baking Gaussian Splatting into Diffusion Denoiser for Fast and Scalable Single-stage Image-to-3D Generation (project page)

• Stable Flow: Vital Layers for Training-Free Image Editing (project page)

• FlipSketch: Flipping Static Drawings to Text-Guided Sketch Animations (project page)

Misc

• CogvideoX Fun Vid2Vid test (X)