Today in Generative Media

Disney activist demands AI strategy; AI to replace execs or creators? AI dream girls

• Disney activist Blackwells demands AI strategy to boost shares (Reuters)

• Joel Kim Booster Says AI Would Be Better Suited to Replace Executives Rather Than Creators (Hollywood Reporter)

• AI ‘dream girls’ are coming for porn stars’ jobs (Washington Post)

• How a Small Iowa Newspaper’s Website Became an AI-Generated Clickbait Factory (Wired)

• Confirmed: Photoroom, the AI image editor, raised $43M at a $500M valuation (TechCrunch)

• Inkitt, the self-publishing platform using AI to develop bestsellers, nabs $37M (TechCrunch)

• OpenArt: Your creative vision, elevated and realized by AI.

• Imagine AI Live: Experience two days with the world’s top enterprise AI leaders, companies, tools, builders, and creators.

• Dough is a tool for crafting videos with AI. Our goal is to give you enough control over video generations that you can make beautiful creations of anything you imagine that feel uniquely your own. (GitHub)

• SceneTex: High-Quality Texture Synthesis for Indoor Scenes via Diffusion Priors (CVPR 2024, project page)

• Point2CAD: Reverse Engineering CAD Models from 3D Point Clouds (CVPR 2024, project page)

• SplaTAM: Splat, Track & Map 3D Gaussians for Dense RGB-D SLAM (CVPR 2024, project page

• 🧞 Genie: Generative Interactive Environments (project page)

• Multi-LoRA Composition for Image Generation (project page)

• Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models (arXiv)

• Neural Mesh Fusion: Unsupervised 3D Planar Surface Understanding (arXiv)

• We are committed to Open Models at StabilityAI. (X)

• We're excited to announce the launch of Dashtoon Studio Beta, the AI assisted comic creator! (X)

• Comfy3D Update… Following results are generated inside ComfyUI python embedded environment (X)

• A HF space to remove the background of video clips with one click. (X)

• We made a portable gaussian splat bullettime rig (using some drying racks) (X)

• Deep in rehearsals for Kinetic Diffusion as we plan a world tour this Summer/Fall. (X)