Today in Generative Media

AI artwork at $1M; Raw Story's suit vs. OpenAI dismissed; Lionsgate is using AI already

News

• AI artwork of Alan Turing sells for $1m (BBC)

• OpenAI’s data scraping wins big as Raw Story’s copyright lawsuit dismissed by NY court (VentureBeat)

• Lionsgate Motion Picture Chair Adam Fogelson On Studio’s New AI Deal: “Our Filmmakers Are Using It Already” (Deadline)

• The Gap Between Open and Closed AI Models Might Be Shrinking. (Time)

• Duolingo’s new eyerolling emo chatbot Lily briefly replaces CEO on investor call to showcase its AI technology (Fortune)

Software

• Google's Vids AI video maker is rolling out to most Workspace tiers (Engadget)

• Project: VERDAD—tracking misinformation in radio broadcasts using Gemini 1.5 (Simon Willison’s blog)

• Introducing Voice Changer: Transform Audio Your Way (Cartesia)

• Mistral launches a moderation API (TechCrunch)

Research

• Structure Consistent Gaussian Splatting with Matching Prior for Few-shot Novel View Synthesis (arXiv)

• Adaptive Length Image Tokenization via Recurrent Allocation (arXiv)

• X-Portrait 2: Highly Expressive Portrait Animation (prerelease project page)

[I don’t usually share research project pages that have no links to tech reports or codebases under “Research”, because they might be nothing more than a press release. But, I decided to make an exception for X-Portrait 2 above, both because it’s newsworthy and because the authors listed have a track record of previous publications, so I assume that additional technical details are coming soon. But I’ll label such projects as “prerelease” in order to highlight that omission.]