Today in Generative Media

AI video is here, flaws and all; Particle, an AI news reader; genAI Willy Wonka disaster

• The future of AI video is here, super weird flaws and all (Washington Post)

• Former Twitter engineers are building Particle, an AI-powered news reader, backed by $4.4M (TechCrunch)

• Actor at Willy Wonka Disaster Says Even the Script Was AI-Generated (Futurism)

• AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating (Ars Technica)

• AI takes priority at TikTok owner ByteDance, as Sora disrupts the future of video creation (South China Morning Post)

• A poster’s guide to who’s selling your data to train AI (Vox)

• AI Says My Screenplay is Better Than 'Silence of the Lambs' and 'Schindler's List' (nofilmschool)

• Shane Black, Jim Herzfeld and More Top Writers Fight AI With Gauntlet Script Analysis Team (Variety)

• Science Journal That Published ‘Rat Dck’ AI Gibberish Speaks Out (Gizmodo)

• Is ChatGPT making scientists hyper-productive? The highs and lows of using AI (Nature)

• Data Scientists Targeted by Malicious Hugging Face ML Models with Silent Backdoor (JFrog)

• FlowMDM: Seamless Human Motion Composition with Blended Positional Encodings (CVPR 2024, project page)

• Differential Diffusion: Giving Each Pixel Its Strength (project page)

• DistriFusion: Distributed Parallel Inference for High-Resolution Diffusion Models (project page)

• Simple linear attention language models balance the recall-throughput tradeoff (arXiv)

• Freepik is rolling out a new text2image tool for real-time infinite gens. The feature is great for creating an endless array of character gens with different lighting, angles and expressions. (X) No more waiting for 4 images.

  Freepik's latest feature update is faster, higher quality, and more control. (X)

• I suspect many AI projects will end up in ruin because its developers are just muddling around getting their dopamine hits from the deluge of micro-events about AI. They focus only on the trees but can't see the forest! (X)