Today in Generative Media

AI hustlers stole women's faces for ads; Artists using AI; Will AI boost productivity?

• AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them. (Washington Post)

• Part scary, part exciting: How artists are using AI in their work (CNBC)

• Will A.I. Boost Productivity? Companies Sure Hope So. (The New York Times)

• A Forensics Expert on Princess Kate’s Photo—and How Credentialing Tools Can Help Build Trust in a World of Increasing Uncertainty (Time)

• ‘It’s very easy to steal someone’s voice’: how AI is affecting video game actors (The Guardian)

• ‘Mamma Mia!’ Stage Star Sara Poyzer Replaced By AI On BBC Show To Recreate Voice Of Dying Person (Deadline)

• Every Tool for Every Creative Ideas (DomoAI)

• VoiceCraft: Zero-Shot Speech Editing and Text-to-Speech in the Wild (project page) Code on GitHub.

• Lift3D: Zero-Shot Lifting of Any 2D Vision Model to 3D (project page)

• InstantSplat: Unbounded Sparse-view Pose-free Gaussian Splatting in 40 Seconds (project page)

• Spectral Motion Alignment for Video Motion Transfer using Diffusion Models (project page)

• Compress3D: a Compressed Latent Space for 3D Generation from a Single Image (arXiv)

• SGD: Street View Synthesis with Gaussian Splatting and Diffusion Prior (arXiv)

• Create an image of a character with Stable Diffusion. Upload it to Tripo to make a 3D model. Upload the model to Mixamo to rig/animate it. (X)

• NBA Pacers used Snapchat AI filters to make it look like Los Angeles Lakers fans were crying during the game. (X)

• Exploring using AI to peel back layers of reality on anonymized Street View captures (X)