Today in Generative Media
Hollywood fights AI fair use; 65 AI studios since 2022; Prime Video begins AI dubbing
News and Opinion
At Least 65 Different AI Studios Have Launched Globally Since 2022 (IndieWire)
Prime Video is beginning an AI dubbing pilot program for select movies and series (Engadget)
People are using Google’s new AI model to remove watermarks from images (TechCrunch)
The L.A. Times adds AI-generated counterpoints to its opinion pieces and guess what, there are problems (Nieman Lab)
Media coverage of artificial intelligence split along political lines, study finds (PsyPost)
A quarter of startups in YC’s current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated (TechCrunch)
Software
Baidu launches two new versions of its AI model Ernie (TechCrunch)
Google adds its voice model Chirp 3 to its Vertex AI platform (TechCrunch)
Research
VGGT: Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (project page)
FLARE: Feed-forward Geometry, Appearance and Camera Estimation from Uncalibrated Sparse Views (project page)
Compressed Image Generation with Denoising Diffusion Codebook Models (project page)
GS-VTON: Controllable 3D Virtual Try-on with Gaussian Splatting (project page)
h-Edit: Effective and Flexible Diffusion-Based Editing via Doob's h-Transform (arXiv)
Free Your Hands: Lightweight Relightable Turntable Capture Pipeline (arXiv)