Today in Generative Media

The Defiance Act for deepfake victims; OpenAI's SearchGPT; AI fails the language test

News

• The Defiance Act passes in the Senate, potentially allowing deepfake victims to sue over nonconsensual images (NBC News)

• OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine (Engadget)

• When A.I. Fails the Language Test, Who Is Left Out of the Conversation? (New York Times)

• Runway’s AI video generator trained on thousands of scraped YouTube videos (The Verge)

• Anthropic’s crawler is ignoring websites’ anti-AI scraping policies (The Verge)

• Openness in AI is necessary to promote fair and competitive markets, said FTC's Lina Khan (Business Insider)

• The AI hype train is still running at full tilt — just don't ask where the profits are (Business Insider)

• “Copyright traps” could tell writers if an AI has scraped their work (MIT Technology Review)

Software and Research

• Google makes its Gemini chatbot faster and more widely available (TechCrunch)

• AI music generator Udio just got a massive upgrade — here's what's new (Tom’s Guide)

• This project implements RIFE - Real-Time Intermediate Flow Estimation for Video Frame Interpolation for The Foundry's Nuke. (GitHub)

• MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-To-Image With 1 Hour of Data (arXiv)