Today in Generative Media

Dow Jones sues Perplexity; 3 paths to GenAI infringement; Nic Cage urges AI caution

News and Opinion

• Dow Jones and New York Post Sue AI Startup Perplexity, Alleging ‘Massive’ Copyright Infringement (Variety)

• Dow Jones says Perplexity is “freeriding,” sues over copyright infringement (Ars Technica)

• "Google Books" Court's New Decision Sets Up 3 Paths to GenAI Infringement (Peter Csathy on Substack)

• Nicolas Cage Urges Young Actors To Protect Themselves From AI: “This Technology Wants To Take Your Instrument” (Deadline)

• Opinion: The AI bubble is looking worse than the dot-com bubble. Here’s why (MarketWatch)

• This threat hunter chases U.S. foes exploiting AI to sway the election (Washington Post)

• Daze, a creative, AI-powered messaging app for Gen Z, is blowing up prelaunch (TechCrunch)

• Study reveals AI-generated images depict idealized youth (TechXplore)

• I fed Google's new notebook summarisation feature my article about the potential dangers of AI scraping and it's as creepy and self-aware as you would think (PC Gamer)

• I created an AI clone of myself and the result was unintentionally hilarious (TechRadar)

• OpenAI will need to prove it's in the public's best interest as it becomes a for-profit company (Business Insider)

Software

• Autodesk Announces AI And Tech Advancements To Empower More Filmmaking Voices At Autodesk University (Forbes)

• Adobe's Project Concept AI is a secret game-changer, and here's why (Creative Bloq)

• Introducing ComfyUI V1, a packaged desktop application (X)

Research

• 3DGS-Enhancer: Enhancing Unbounded 3D Gaussian Splatting with View-consistent 2D Diffusion Priors (NeurIPS 2024, project page)

• SurFhead: Affine Rig Blending for Geometrically Accurate 2D Gaussian Surfel-based Head Avatars (project page)

• Customize Your Visual Autoregressive Recipe with Set Autoregressive Modeling (project page)

• ExpAvatar: High-Fidelity Avatar Generation of Unseen Expressions with 3D Face Priors (ACM)

• Prompting for Discovery: Flexible Sense-Making for AI Art-Making with Dreamsheets (ACM)

• ZeroComp: Zero-shot Object Compositing from Image Intrinsics via Diffusion (arXiv)

• FAMOUS: High-Fidelity Monocular 3D Human Digitization Using View Synthesis (arXiv)

• Relighting from a Single Image: Datasets and Deep Intrinsic-based Architecture (arXiv)

• UniG: Modelling Unitary 3D Gaussians for View-consistent 3D Reconstruction (arXiv)

Misc

• Deep Learning for 3D Vision: Algorithms and Applications (World Scientific Publishing)

• The World’s Best Bootcamp for the Latest AI Animation Techniques. (Curious Refuge)

• this style of AI + influencers might just make tiktok useful (X)

• What happens if you ask Premiere to keep extending footage forever? (Threads)

• Trump is making AI real (X)