Today in Generative Media

Hollywood fights AI fair use; 65 AI studios since 2022; Prime Video begins AI dubbing

News and Opinion

• Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo and More Than 400 Hollywood Names Urge Trump to Not Let AI Companies ‘Exploit’ Copyrighted Works (Variety)

• 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)

• We just updated the Gemini API docs to make native image generation even more simple to access and get started with across Python, JS, and cURL, happy building : ) (X)

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)

Misc

• Generate animated 3D characters for your vibe coded @threejs game in <5 mins (X)

• This lora makes good animated idents (X)