Today in Generative Media

AI agents are manipulators; Apple's faulty AI headlines; Make Big Tech LLMs free

News and Opinion

• AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines (Wired)

• Apple called on to ditch AI headline summaries after BBC debacle (The Register)

• Fining Big Tech isn't working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain (The Register)

• Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian predicts live theater and sports will become more popular than ever as AI grows (Business Insider)

• Britannica Didn’t Just Survive. It’s an A.I. Company Now. (New York Times)

• Encyclopedia Britannica Is Now an AI Company (Gizmodo)

• ‘A sort of superpower’: Unexpected revelations made possible by AI in 2024 (CNN)

• Just 4 Things (Sora release & the big Promise) (Mike Gioia on Substack)

• o3, AGI, the art of the demo, and what you can expect in 2025 (Gary Marcus on Substack)

• Pushing the Limits of Gaussian Splatting for Spatial Storytelling (New York Times)

• AI startup Odyssey’s new tool can generate photorealistic 3D worlds (TechCrunch)

Software

• WonderWorld: Interactive 3D Scene Generation from a Single Image (GitHub)

• LiftImage3D: Lifting Any Single Image to 3D Gaussians with Video Generation Priors (GitHub)

• our GPUs get a little less busy during late december as people take a break from work, so we are giving all plus users unlimited sora access via the relaxed queue over the holidays! (X)

• Article Generation Tool: This is a Node.js application that generates articles based on a given keyword. It queries a search engine (DuckDuckGo), summarizes the content of the search results, and generates a draft article using the summaries with AI. The generated article can be published as a WordPress draft or saved as a Markdown file. (GitHub)

Research

• Flowing from Words to Pixels: A Framework for Cross-Modality Evolution (project page)

• Turbo-GS: Accelerating 3D Gaussian Fitting for High-Quality Radiance Fields (project page)

• 🏍️ AKiRa: Augmentation Kit on Rays for optical video generation (project page)

• Autoregressive Video Generation without Vector Quantization (project page)

• CoCoGaussian: Leveraging Circle of Confusion for Gaussian Splatting from Defocused Images (project page)

Misc

• OpenAI is burning hundreds of millions of dollars to try and make GPT-5 a meaningful upgrade, and it isn't working. Where does all of this go? How does this result in anything? (BlueSky)

• Generate ENTIRE 3D SETS For Your Projects FAST! [FREE Blender + SDXL/FLUX Workflow] (YouTube)

• You know Generative 3D is moving fast when "early methods" were arXived 8 months ago (X)

• AI Code is the new NoCode. (X)