Today in Generative Media

EU passes AI act; SXSW audiences boo AI promos; OpenAI's Sora available this year

• World’s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers (CNBC)

• SXSW Audiences Loudly Boo Festival Videos Touting the Virtues of AI (Variety)

• OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video generator will be publicly available later this year (The Verge)

• 'Journalists are feeding the AI hype machine' (BBC)

• Ted Sarandos Says AI Cannot Replace Filmmakers: “There Is No Shortcut For The Human Experience” (Deadline)

• OpenAI’s deals with publishers could spell trouble for rivals (TechCrunch)

• Google’s new AI will play video games with you — but not to win (The Verge)

• Keywords tried to make a game using GenAI but said the tech was 'unable to replace talent' (Game Developer)

• AI voice acting is changing modding, and it's killing one of the best parts of the scene: The amateur voice actor with a cheap headset mic (PC Gamer)

• Amazon will let sellers paste a link so AI can make a product page (The Verge)

• Authors push back on the growing number of AI 'scam' books on Amazon (NPR)

• How OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora could change science – and society (Nature)

• I just tried Haiper AI hyper-real video — and it’s going right after Sora (Tom’s Guide)

• Trump Says Humiliating Videos of His Brain Farts Are AI-Generated (Gizmodo)

• Adobe Express: The all-in-one AI content creation app is now available as a beta on mobile and brings Adobe Firefly generative AI to your mobile devices for the first time. (Adobe Express blog)

• 🌈 Grog is a cli that creates a Gradio UI for a Cog application 🌈 (GitHub)

• Midjourney is working on a way to personalize your own model. It would take all of your liked images in your gallery, & use those to personalize the model (X)

• So when *the CTO* of OpenAI is asked if Sora was trained on YouTube videos, she says “actually I’m not sure” and refuses to discuss all further questions about the training data. (X)