Today in Generative Media

Meta AI copyright judge's comments; Zuck's AI friends; DOGE uses AI for regulations

News and Opinion

• US federal judge on Meta's AI copyright fair use argument: 'You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person's work' (PC Gamer)

• A Judge Says Meta’s AI Copyright Case Is About ‘the Next Taylor Swift’ (Wired)

• Disney Hack: Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing 1.1 Terabytes of Data Over Slack (Variety) According to the plea agreement, in early 2024 Kramer posted a computer program on various online platforms that appeared to be used to create AI-generated art, when it really contained a malicious file to gain access to victims’ computers.

• Zuckerberg Says in Response to Loneliness Epidemic, He Will Create Most of Your Friends Using Artificial Intelligence (Futurism)

• DOGE put a college student in charge of using AI to rewrite regulations (Ars Technica)

• Google is quietly testing ads in AI chatbots (Ars Technica)

• Mark Zuckerberg just declared war on the entire advertising industry (The Verge) [In this vision, Meta] generates photos and videos of those products using AI, writes copy about those products with AI, assembles that into an infinite number of ads with AI, targets those ads to all the people on its platforms with AI, measures which ads perform best and iterates on them with AI, and then has those customers buy the actual products on its platforms using its systems.

• Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests (Ars Technica)

Software and Research

• BTW, StableAlbedo is coming soon, built on the same architecture as StableNormal v2. Still Apache-2 licensed and free for commercial use. (X)

• Pixel3DMM: Versatile Screen-Space Priors for Single-Image 3D Face Reconstruction (project page)

• Vid2Avatar-Pro: Authentic Avatar from Videos in the Wild via Universal Prior (project page)

Misc

• TED 2025: Artist-Driven Innovation in the Age of AI (Rob Bredow)

• Writing screenplays with Cursor in Agent mode + Gemini 2.5 is absolutely bonkers. (X)

• I cannot stress enough that some of the most powerful people on the planet have been captured by a worldview that is fundamentally anti-human (X)

• We've created a short film inspired by Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" using entirely free, open-source AI tools. Using the Wan2.1 and flux in ComfyUI, we transformed footage shot on a smartphone into a short where I become a beetle! (LinkedIn)