Today in Generative Media

AI power grab; Creatives' anti-AI petition; Microsoft, OpenAI's $10M for AI news tools

News

• The A.I. Power Grab (New York Times)

• Thousands of creatives sign petition against AI data scraping (TechCrunch)

• Microsoft and OpenAI are giving news outlets $10 million to use AI tools (The Verge)

• Gary Marcus proposes generative AI boycott to push for regulation, tame Silicon Valley (The Register)

• Google releases tech to watermark AI-generated text (TechCrunch)

• Musician's AI Project Challenges Tired Perceptions of Art and Creativity (Muse by Clios)

• Lawsuit blames Character.AI in death of 14-year-old boy (TechCrunch)

• Marc Andreessen says AI model makers are in ‘a race to the bottom’ and it’s not good for business (TechCrunch)

• Apple is ‘concerned’ about AI turning real photos into ‘fantasy’ (The Verge)

• Scammers are stealing homes from under their owners' noses. AI is making it scarily easy. (Business Insider)

Software

• Introducing Act-One: A new way to generate expressive character performances using simple video inputs (Runway ML)

• Voice Design: Generate a custom voice based on a text prompt Describe the age, accent, tone or character and create a new voice in seconds (ElevenLabs)

• Mochi 1: A new SOTA in open-source video generation models (Genmo) Model download on HuggingFace.

  • AI video startup Genmo launches Mochi 1, an open source rival to Runway, Kling, and others (VentureBeat)

• Ideogram Canvas, Magic Fill, and Extend (Ideogram)

• Introducing Stable Diffusion 3.5 (Stability AI) “…our analysis shows that Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large leads the market in prompt adherence and rivals much larger models in image quality.”

  • Stable Diffusion 3.5 debuts as Stability AI aims to improve open models for generating images (VentureBeat)

• Canva has a shiny new text-to-image generator (The Verge)

• Introducing computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku (Anthropic)

• Moonshine is a family of speech-to-text models optimized for fast and accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) on resource-constrained devices (GitHub)

Misc

• One last conversation, with the help of AI. (New York Times: Modern Love podcast)

• Grammy-winning producer Timbaland shares how Suno is helping him rediscover the purity of creativity in the debut episode of our new video series, MUSE (X)

• i'm kind of intrigued by these Hailuo shadows (X)

• Unwanted AI (X)