Today in Generative Media

AI finds location in photos; SEO heist in the AI era; 3D Gaussian avatars

• Artificial intelligence can find your location in photos, worrying privacy experts (NPR)

• Inside the first 'SEO heist' of the AI era (Business Insider)

• GAvatar: Animatable 3D Gaussian Avatars with Implicit Mesh Learning (project page)

• HUGS: Human Gaussian Splats (project page)

• LatentEditor: Text Driven Local Editing of 3D Scenes (project page)

• Online Detection of AI-Generated Images (project page)

• Gradio demo for RAVE: Randomized Noise Shuffling for Fast and Consistent Video Editing with Diffusion Models (HuggingFace)

• Video toolkit – convert, make GIFs, extract audio (replicate)

• Now you can hand-draw a plot on a tldraw whiteboard and turn it into matplotlib code directly in a notebook (X)

• Draw your website on http://makereal.tldraw.com, scribble some design notes, press the Open in Replit button, make adjustments, deploy, post on twitter for clout (X)

• It is weird to see how the messiness of cultural knowledge production gets even messier in the age of AI. (X)