Today in Generative Media

Netflix's GenAI for Games; 'Heretic' end credits disavow AI; 'Minecraft' is haunted

News

• Mike Verdu of Netflix Games leads new generative AI initiative (VentureBeat)

  • Netflix Games exec prepares bowl of word salad to announce new role as VP of GenAI for Games (Game Developer)

• ‘Heretic’ Directors Used End Credits to Warn Hollywood About AI: ‘Let’s Bury It Underground With Nuclear Warheads, Cause It Might Kill Us All’ (Variety)

• ‘Minecraft’ Is Finally Haunted, Thanks To Generative AI (Forbes)

• US laws regulating AI prove elusive, but there may be hope (TechCrunch)

• Snowflake CEO explains why 'the insidious thing' about AI hallucinations isn't the occasional error (Business Insider)

• Big tech is facing down a major problem with its AI plans (Futurism)

• Perplexity CEO offers AI company’s services to replace striking NYT staff (TechCrunch)

• Endangered bees stop Meta’s plan for nuclear-powered AI data center (Ars Technica)

• Regulators deliver successive blows to Amazon and Meta’s nuclear power ambitions (TechCrunch)

• Runway AI Is Changing Animation. How To Use It To Tell Untold Stories (Forbes)

Software

• Do you have blurry Gaussian Splatting models? Gauzilla Pro lets you render them blur-free in real time without re-training the models on the GPUs. (X)

• Custom Worlds showcases part of the vision of Oasis: you can upload any image, including realworld images, and Oasis turns them into a playable world (X)

• npx offmute 🎙️: Intelligent meeting transcription and analysis using Google's Gemini models (GitHub)

Research

• GrounDiT: Grounding Diffusion Transformers via Noisy Patch Transplantation (NeurIPS 2024 project page)

• DELTA: Dense Efficient Long-range 3D Tracking for Any video (project page)

• Agent-to-Sim: Learning Interactive Behavior Models from Casual Longitudinal Videos (project page)

• OmniSEP: Unified Omni-modal Sound Separation (project page)

• OS-ATLAS: A Foundation Action Model For Generalist GUI Agents (project page)

• An Image is Worth 32 Tokens for Reconstruction and Generation (project page)

• Multi-Layer Gaussian Splatting for Immersive Anatomy Visualization (X)

Misc

• Generated locally on a 4090 with Mochi + MochiEdit custom nodes (X)

• The new Turing Test is "can the robot eat without making me sick" (Threads)