Today in Generative Media

AI invades the arts; 94% of AI college writing undetected; World Labs' AI 3D scenes

News

• AI Invades The Arts, But Is Only In Its First Act (Forbes)

• Study: 94% Of AI-Generated College Writing Is Undetected By Teachers (Forbes)

• World Labs’ AI can generate interactive 3D scenes from a single photo (TechCrunch)

• One million public Bluesky posts scraped for AI training (Mashable)

• Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why (Ars Technica)

• The company behind Arc is building a new AI web browser called Dia (The Verge)

Software

• Julius is a great AI tool for analyzing and visualizing datasets (Fast Company)

• MoSca: A Modern 4D Reconstruction System for Monocular Videos (GitHub)

• HunyuanVideo: A Systematic Framework For Large Video Generation Model Training (GitHub)

Research

• TEXGen: a Generative Diffusion Model for Mesh Textures (SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 project page)

• Buffer Anytime: Zero-Shot Video Depth and Normal from Image Priors (project page)

• 🛹 RollingDepth: Video Depth without Video Models (project page)

• One-Step Diffusion Model for Face Restoration (project page)

• PSHuman: Photorealistic Single-image 3D Human Reconstruction using Cross-Scale Multiview Diffusion and Explicit Remeshing (project page)

• ScribbleLight: Single Image Indoor Relighting with Scribbles (project page)

• ID-Patch: Robust ID Association for Group Photo Personalization (project page)

• PersonaCraft: Personalized Full-Body Image Synthesis for Multiple Identities from Single References Using 3D-Model-Conditioned Diffusion (project page)

• Symmetry Strikes Back: From Single-Image Symmetry Detection to 3D Generation (project page)

• MVGenMaster: Scaling Multi-View Generation from Any Image via 3D Priors Enhanced Diffusion Model (project page)

• Pathways on the Image Manifold: Image Editing via Video Generation (arXiv)

Misc

• How to train a FLUX LoRA on an illustrated character sheet to generate realistic, consistent characters. (X)

• The future of social media. Generation costs are only going down and ai creation tools will be everywhere. (X)