Today in Generative Media

ElevenLabs signs voice actor estates; Nintendo doesn't need AI; AI's $600B question

News

• AI Firm ElevenLabs Sets Audio Reader Pact With Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Laurence Olivier Estates (Variety)

• Nintendo says it doesn't need generative AI to make games because it has "decades of know-how" and doesn't want any "issues with intellectual property rights" (GamesRadar)

• AI’s $600B Question (Sequoia Capital)

• Her guacamole recipe tops Google. She fears AI will change that (Washington Post)

Research

• DINO-Tracker: Taming DINO for Self-Supervised Point Tracking in a Single Video (ECCV 2024, project page)

• Magic Insert: Style-Aware Drag-and-Drop (project page)

• Lazy Diffusion Transformer for Interactive Image Editing (project page)

• OccFusion: Rendering Occluded Humans with Generative Diffusion Priors (project page)

• Diffusion Forcing: Next-token Prediction Meets Full-Sequence Diffusion (project page)

Misc

• It’s actually quite important people know systems that can digitally pattern interpret everything will inevitably be able to emulate proof of human effort. (X)

• prompt: on a blank piece of paper a hand writes the answer to the question "Life, the Universe and Everything? (X)