Today in Generative Media

YouTube's AI music crackdown; Edith Piaf biopic via genAI; The New Yorker's AI issue

• YouTube is going to start cracking down on AI clones of musicians (The Verge)

• Edith Piaf AI-Generated Biopic in the Works at Warner Music (Variety)

• This week’s issue of The New Yorker explores A.I. not as simply as a technology but as a way of life. (New Yorker)

• What the Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deepfakes (New Yorker)

• More GPTs (OpenAI):

  • AI Filmmaking Assistant: Create consistency across your AI Film, automatically format Midjourney prompts, and more!

  • ChooseYourOwnComic! Interactive comic tales with vivid imagery and Spotify tunes.

• Human-SGD: Single-Image 3D Human Digitization with Shape-Guided Diffusion (SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, project page)

• Story-to-Motion: Synthesizing Infinite and Controllable Character Animation from Long Text (project page)

• Music ControlNet: Multiple Time-varying Controls for Music Generation (project page)

• Visual Effects Compositing of RGB + W Captured Gaussian Splats PartV4a (X)

• "Hey ChatGPT create an animated video that is from a 1980s video game that never existed. you can do this, you have all the tools." (X)

• Using the "Real-time Latent Consistency Model" that I'm using in the example here, is the first time I truly got a glimpse of a future where we'll be able to use our artistic skills and sensibility, to get control over AI image gen. (X) Real time generative AI is very compelling (X)

• No doubt in my mind that AI (text-to-image models in particular) will lead to new art movements and transformations in the fine art world. (X)