Today in Generative Media

Inpainting in Midjourney; MSFT pulls an AI travel guide; Werner Herzog reads AI poetry

• Inpainting is now available in Midjourney (X)

• Microsoft has pulled an AI-written travel guide, which told tourists to visit the Ottawa Food Bank if they are hungry (Business Insider)

• Listen to Werner Herzog Read a Book of AI Poetry (Gizmodo)

• Snapchat is expanding further into generative AI with ‘Dreams’ (TechCrunch)

• The New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawler (The Verge)

• Our principles for partnering with the music industry on AI technology (YouTube official blog)

• Consistency of Characters, Objects, and Styles with Generative AI (Javi Lopez, Substack)

• I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning it on Bad AI-Generated Images (Max Woolf’s blog)

• New AI piece: "Protest against AI" (X)

• CoDeF is a step up when it comes to temporal consistency for vid2vid 🔥 (X)

• A love letter to Mad Max, Monster Squad, and Chrono Trigger (X)