Today in Generative Media

BBC threatens Perplexity; Fanfiction writers battle AI; How writers and students use AI

News and Opinion

• BBC threatens legal action against AI startup Perplexity over content scraping, FT reports (Reuters)

• Fanfiction writers battle AI, one scrape at a time (The Verge)

• How AI Helps Our Students Deepen Their Writing (Yes, Really) (Education Week)

• Writing with AI: The Power of the Smarmy First Draft (Brevity Blog)

• Max will show autoplaying video previews suggested by AI (The Verge)

• Employers Are Buried in A.I.-Generated Résumés (New York Times)

• A ‘White-Collar Blood Bath’ Doesn’t Have to Be Our Fate (New York Times)

• Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad? (New York Times)

• LLMs: Dishonest, unpredictable and potentially dangerous. (Gary Marcus on Substack)

Software

• Kontext Realtime: Create and edit images using your voice. (GitHub)

• Mureka AI just launched a tool that lets you upload any reference track and generate a custom instrumental in the same style. (X)

• Test3R: Learning to Reconstruct 3D at Test Time (GitHub)

Research

• Hunyuan-GameCraft: High-dynamic Interactive Game Video Generation with Hybrid History Condition (project page)

• Controllable and Expressive One-Shot Video Head Swapping (project page)

• DreamActor-H1: High-Fidelity Human-Product Demonstration Video Generation via Motion-designed Diffusion Transformers (project page)

• SyncTalk++: High-Fidelity and Efficient Synchronized Talking Heads Synthesis Using Gaussian Splatting (project page)

• Enhancing Creative Generation on Stable Diffusion-based Models (arXiv)

• Improving Rectified Flow with Boundary Conditions (arXiv)

• Classifier-Free Guidance: From High-Dimensional Analysis to Generalized Guidance Forms (arXiv)

• Dense SAE Latents Are Features, Not Bugs (arXiv)

Misc

• how AI-assisted programming changes the balance of which skills are most important (X)

• Don’t work in hi-res images until you are ready to, and literally EVERYTHING can be upscaled. (X)