Today in Generative Media

AI helps sell Hitler; SeriesAI raises $28M; Raspberry Pi and Sony make an AI camera

News and Opinion

• The far right is using AI to sell Hitler to a new generation (Washington Post)

• Series, a GenAI game development platform, has quietly raised $28M from Netflix, Dell, a16z, others (TechCrunch)

• Raspberry Pi and Sony made an AI-powered camera module (The Verge)

  • Raspberry Pi AI Camera Review: AI for the masses (Tom’s Hardware)

• Black Eyed Peas to Debut AI-Powered Member at Las Vegas Residency (AI Business)

• The world's first AI art museum will be a big test for the technology (Creative Bloq)

• This AI headshot generator could help you land your dream job (New York Post)

• An author is facing backlash for using AI to write 120 books. He says he's misunderstood. (Business Insider)

• Editors of sci-fi magazine disgusted as they realized submissions were filling with AI slop (Futurism)

• The future of AI might look a lot like Twitter (The Verge)

• Creating a public counterpoint for AI (Mozilla)

• NotebookLM’s automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective (Simon Willison)

Software

• Welcome to the era of Hyperfast video generation: with 10x faster inference, you can now generate full-quality Dream Machine v1.6 clips in under 20 seconds. (X)

• Open NotebookLM Convert your PDFs into podcasts with open-source AI models (HuggingFace)

• FlashTex: Fast Relightable Mesh Texturing with LightControlNet (GitHub)

• Best FLUX LoRA for comic books? (X)

Research

• PhysGen: Rigid-Body Physics-Grounded Image-to-Video Generation (ECCV 2024, project page)

• LiFT: A Surprisingly Simple Lightweight Feature Transform for Dense ViT Descriptors (ECCV 2024, project page)

• SMooDi: Stylized Motion Diffusion Model (ECCV 2024, project page)

• Segment Any Change (NeurIPS 2024, arXiv)

Misc

• Someone gave NotebookLM a document with just "poop" and "fart" repeated over and over again. I did NOT expect the result to be this good. (X)