Today in Generative Media

EU agrees on AI bill; Civitai dropped by OctoML cloud provider; AI virtual production

• E.U. Agrees on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Rules (New York Times)

• E.U. reaches deal on landmark AI bill, racing ahead of U.S. (Washington Post)

• Controversial AI image platform Civitai dropped by its cloud computing provider after reports of possible CSAM (Engadget)

• Disguise and Cuebric Team Up on AI Virtual Production Solution (Animation World Network)

• The Amazing Ways Coca-Cola Uses Generative AI In Art And Advertising (Forbes)

• The biggest digital art trends we'll see in 2024, as predicted by ILM, Wētā FX and other industry creatives (CreativeBloq)

• GaussianAvatars: Photorealistic Head Avatars with Rigged 3D Gaussians (project page)

• Fast View Synthesis of Casual Videos (project page)

• WonderJourney: Going from Anywhere to Everywhere (project page)

• DreaMoving: A Human Video Generation Framework based on Diffusion Models (project page)

• Inversion-Free Image Editing with Natural Language (project page)

• XCube: Large-Scale 3D Generative Modeling using Sparse Voxel Hierarchies (project page)

• Doodle Your 3D: From Abstract Freehand Sketches to Precise 3D Shapes (project page)

• AVID: Any-Length Video Inpainting with Diffusion Model (project page)

• MVDD: Multi-View Depth Diffusion Models (arXiv)

• StyleAligned Web UI (GitHub)

• AI Tamago 🥚🐣:An 100% local, LLM-generated and driven virtual pet with thoughts, feelings and feedback. Revive your fond memories of Tamagotchi! (GitHub)

• Steerable Motion, a ComfyUI custom node for steering videos with batches of images (GitHub)

• Conversion of some matrix scenes to anime using animatediff (X)

• cinematic, a girl with pink hair in a subway station looking confused, 4k, high resolution (X)