Today in Generative Media

Don't blindly trust AI; AI destroys a generation; Good taste is more important than ever

News and Opinion

• You are hardwired to blindly trust AI. Here’s how to fight it. (Washington Post)

• AI Is Destroying a Generation of Students (Futurism)

• Good Taste Is More Important Than Ever (The Atlantic)

• People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions (Futurism)

• Pierre Huyghe’s Bracing Dark Mirror of A.I. Has Its U.S. Debut (New York Times)

• Exclusive: OpenAI taps Google in unprecedented cloud deal despite AI rivalry, sources say (Reuters)

Software and Datasets

• GEN3C: 3D-Informed World-Consistent Video Generation with Precise Camera Control (GitHub) [Apache 2.0 license]

• Creative upscaler for video: Astra empowers storytellers & creatives in the final mile of their workflow to creatively upscale AI-generated video to crisp 4K resolution while enhancing quality and finer details. (Topaz Labs)

• OpenModelDB is a community driven database of AI Upscaling models. We aim to provide a better way to find and compare models than existing sources.

Research

• Self Forcing Bridging the Train-Test Gap in Autoregressive Video Diffusion (project page)

• 4DGT: Learning a 4D Gaussian Transformer Using Real-World Monocular Videos (project page)

• BecomingLit: Relightable Gaussian Avatars with Hybrid Neural Shading (project page)

• PartCrafter: Structured 3D Mesh Generation via Compositional Latent Diffusion Transformers (project page)

• LoRAShop: Training-Free Multi-Concept Image Generation and Editing with Rectified Flow Transformers (project page)

• STARFlow: Scaling Latent Normalizing Flows for High-resolution Image Synthesis (arXiv)

• On-the-fly Reconstruction for Large-Scale Novel View Synthesis from Unposed Images (arXiv)

• 3DGEER: Exact and Efficient Volumetric Rendering with 3D Gaussians (arXiv)

Misc

• Stormtrooper vlogs are the next big Veo 3 trend (X)