Today in Generative Media

NYT's AI reporting tool; "Open source" includes data; Music & voice partnerships

News

• How The New York Times is using generative AI as a reporting tool (Ars Technica)

• Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition (The Verge)

• Universal Music partners with AI company building an ‘ethical’ music generator (The Verge)

• SAG-AFTRA signs agreement with AI-powered voice company Ethovox (Game Developer)

• A mysterious new image generation model has appeared (TechCrunch)

• The AI boom may unleash a global surge in electronic waste (Washington Post)

• Robert Downey Jr. Issues Warning For Future Execs Who Might Use AI To Recreate His Likeness: “My Law Firm Will Still Be Very Active” (Deadline)

• Margaret Atwood’s verdict on AI poetry is in — and it’s not good (TechCrunch)

Software

• Introducing Voice Cloning on Hedra! (X)

• Initial Video Arena results are in! With almost 20k votes, we now have an initial ranking of the Video generation models (X)

• Gmail will now help you write an email on the web with AI (The Verge)

Research

• SCube: Instant Large-Scale Scene Reconstruction using VoxSplats (NeurIPS 2024 project page)

• FreeGaussian: Guidance-free Controllable 3D Gaussian Splats with Flow Derivatives (project page)

• MoGe: Unlocking Accurate Monocular Geometry Estimation for Open-Domain Images with Optimal Training Supervision (project page)

• Grid4D: 4D Decomposed Hash Encoding for High-fidelity Dynamic Gaussian Splatting (arXiv)

• Simpler Diffusion (SiD2): 1.5 FID on ImageNet512 with pixel-space diffusion (arXiv)

Misc

• How FlashAttention Accelerates Generative AI Revolution (YouTube)

• Big Congrats to Nicolas Pomet for winning the second annual AI Horror Film Competition by Curious Refuge, in partnership with Infinity AI! (X)

• We’re excited to see creators like Ken O’Donnell push the boundaries of what’s possible using our markerless motion capture technology! (X)

• Generate expressive performances using a single driving video and character image with Act-One. Learn how in today's Runway Academy (X)

• Who's the better writer: AI or a Human? We had our very own Jason Hellerman square off against Matt Allen in a ten page challenge. (X) [3 days left to vote!]