Today in Generative Media
Game companies' final offer on AI; AI hallucinations get worse; AI spiritual fantasies
News and Opinion
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse (New York Times)
People are losing loved ones to AI-fueld spiritual fantasies (Rolling Stone)
Man pleads guilty to using malicious AI software to hack Disney employee (Ars Technica)
A stealth AI model beat DALL-E and Midjourney on a popular benchmark — its creator just landed $30M (TechCrunch)
Software
Lightricks just made AI video generation 30x faster — and you won’t need a $10,000 GPU (VentureBeat)
Announcing 4.5B Magi-1 Model: The Lightweight Autoregressive Video Generation Model (X)
Google’s iOS app will use AI to simplify jargon (The Verge)
Experience state-of-the-art object detection with USTC's D-Fine models. (HuggingFace)
Research
PoseTraj: Pose-Aware Trajectory Control in Video Diffusion (project page)
GauS-SLAM: Dense RGB-D SLAM with Gaussian Surfels (project page)
Perception Encoder: The best visual embeddings are not at the output of the network (project page)
Misc
Why DO large language models hallucinate? (Gary Marcus on Substack)