Today in Generative Media
LimeWire buys genAI image co.; George R.R. Martin sues OpenAI; AI needs poets
After relaunching as a studio for creators, LimeWire acquires BlueWillow, a Midjourney competitor (TechCrunch)
George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement (The Verge)
Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets (Rest of World)
Introducing DeciDiffusion 1.0: 3x the Speed of Stable Diffusion with the Same Quality (deci.ai)
Illusion Diffusion HQ 🌀: Generate stunning high quality illusion artwork with Stable Diffusion (HuggingFace)
ControlNet-XS (project page). “…a new architecture with as little as 1% of the parameters of the base model achieves state-of-the art results, considerably better than ControlNet in terms of FID score.”
Expressive Text-to-Image Generation with Rich Text (ICCV 2023, project page)
Sitcom “Friends” According to AI (Reddit)