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Stable Video Diffusion & OpenAI fiasco

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Hello!! Welcome to newsletter # 30 🤘 Each week, we deliver news in AI with particular focus on its role in shaping art & creativity + abominations, memes, daily theme champs from Whirl and more.

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Many cool AI video projects blooming

draw fast!
— tldraw (@tldraw)
4:37 PM • Nov 23, 2023

SDV (Stable Diffusion Image To Video) Google Colab available here for anyone who wants to play along at home.
colab.research.google.com/github/mkshing…
Generates 3 seconds of video in about 30 seconds using an A100 GPU on Colab+
No control of the actual video in any way at all (yet), but it… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Steve Mills (@SteveMills)
3:54 AM • Nov 24, 2023

🎨 Wandering in the latent space of Gustav Klimt
— Benjamin Bardou (@benjaminbardou)
8:15 PM • Nov 23, 2023

Stable Video Diffusion (SVD) is now on Replicate:
replicate.com/stability-ai/s…
- Make 14 frame or 25 frame videos
- Use any image, it'll be resized to make the best video
- Control degree of movement
Great work putting this together @lucataco93, and @StabilityAI for the fantastic… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— fofr (@fofrAI)
9:29 AM • Nov 23, 2023

Animating Nerf scenes using an MLS-based meshless method! fytalon.github.io/pienerf/
Amazing work by @YinYang24414350's group @UUtah!
— Minchen Li (@minchen_li_)
5:36 AM • Nov 23, 2023

Many fabulous prompts out there in X land. Try these out that caught the eye:

From Whirl AIAC Discord Forums

Our Discord is full of forums - thematic, technology-based, for funsies, and more. Here are a few selects that got a lot of love this week..

By @figs_ai_art (Nijijourney)

By @jacquec_art (Nijijourney)

By @lost.cartridges (DALL-E 3)

By @thelefthandtree (DALL-E 3)

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🗞️ AI News

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Not art, still noteworthy

Andrej Karpathy just released an INCREDIBLE video breaking down how Large Language Models work - is both technically comprehensive and easy to grasp
Viral new website “Make It Real” takes in screenshots and spits out working websites
AI boosts Breast Cancer detection
AI helping in early detection of Pancreatic Cancer
OpenAI went into a leadership tailspin last weekend. The final result is: CEO was removed, then reinstated under a fully new board after the entire company threatened to leave. There was wild speculation throughout, and it all unfolded as publicly as possible, over Twitter. Start at OpenAI’s leadership transition announcement, then walk through Sam’s tweets, starting Nov 17th
More concern over deepfake nudes (esp. for young people)
US Court of Appeals proposes a new restriction: make lawyers say ‘I did not use ChatGPT’ or, if they did, then say ‘I reviewed ChatGPT’s work‘

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Whirl 🌀

New Release: 1.14

Super strong week of updates for the app. Champ voting got a new design. Profiles got a new design. We also added more measures to track voting patterns, which will allow us to suspend bad actors. Many more smaller upgrades as well, which you can read about in Discord…