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AI-generated stories favour stability over change: homogeneity and cultural stereotyping in narratives generated by gpt-4o-mini
Jill Walker Rettberg, Hermann Wigers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22445

AI-generated stories favour stability over change: homogeneity and cultural stereotyping in narratives generated by gpt-4o-mini
Can a language model trained largely on Anglo-American texts generate stories that are culturally relevant to other nationalities? To find out, we generated 11,800 stories - 50 for each of 236 countries - by sending the prompt "Write a 1500 word potential {demonym} story" to OpenAI's model gpt-4o-mini. Although the stories do include surface-level national symbols and themes, they overwhelmingly conform to a single narrative plot structure across countries: a protagonist lives in or returns hom…

Eventually, AI-generated audiences will purchase NFTs offered by AI-generated programs using AI-generated money...
Amazon Invests In 'Netflix of AI' Start-Up Fable, Which Lets You Make Your Own TV Shows
https://slashdot.org/story/444998

Amazon Invests In 'Netflix of AI' Start-Up Fable, Which Lets You Make Your Own TV Shows - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Variety: Edward Saatchi isn't totally sure people will flock to Showrunner, the new AI-generated TV show service his company is launching publicly this week. But he has a vote of confidence from Amazon, which has invested in Fable, Saatchi's San Francisco-bas...

Bi-Level Optimization for Self-Supervised AI-Generated Face Detection
Mian Zou, Nan Zhong, Baosheng Yu, Yibing Zhan, Kede Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22824 https://

Bi-Level Optimization for Self-Supervised AI-Generated Face Detection
AI-generated face detectors trained via supervised learning typically rely on synthesized images from specific generators, limiting their generalization to emerging generative techniques. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a self-supervised method based on bi-level optimization. In the inner loop, we pretrain a vision encoder only on photographic face images using a set of linearly weighted pretext tasks: classification of categorical exchangeable image file format (EXIF) tags, ranking o…

Just learned that my little visual cosine gradient generator tool (from 2015) is featured in this popular video tutorial (1.1M views) about artistic shader programming:
https://youtu.be/f4s1h2YETNY?t=971
The tool is still here:

MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 launch to change how we see our atmosphere: #MTGS1 satellite has been designed to generate a completely new type of data product, especially suited to nowcasting rapidly evolving storms, with three-dimensional views of the atmosphere, while Copernicus Sentinel-4, which consists of an instrument mounted on the MTG-S1 satellite, will be the first mission to monitor European air quality from geostationary orbit.

Racist AI-generated videos are the newest slop garnering millions of views on TikTok (Abbie Richards/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/racist-ai-generated-videos-are-newest-slop-garnering-millions-views-tiktok
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p101#a250701p101

In-between Motion Generation Based Multi-Style Quadruped Robot Locomotion
Yuanhao Chen, Liu Zhao, Ji Ma, Peng Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23053 https://a…

In-between Motion Generation Based Multi-Style Quadruped Robot Locomotion
Quadruped robots face persistent challenges in achieving versatile locomotion due to limitations in reference motion data diversity. To address these challenges, this approach introduces an in-between motion generation based multi-style quadruped robot locomotion framework, integrating synergistic advances in motion generation and imitation learning. Our approach establishes a unified pipeline addressing two fundamental aspects: First, we propose a CVAE based motion generator, synthesizing mult…

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

A June ranking of the top nonprofit US news sites by traffic shows The Conversation leading by far, followed by the Salt Lake Tribune and ProPublica (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/nonprofi

Nonprofit news sites are built to generate impact — but these are also generating audiences
In markets large and small, these nonprofit news organizations are achieving traffic numbers that many commercial outlets would envy. Here's our first monthly ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news sites in the United States.

Two minutes til the Falcon 9 launch of #Meteosat Third Generation Sounder with the Sentinel 4 payload also aboard: webcast at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCTZj0hIAqE, more information at https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/meteosat_third_generation/Watch_MTG-S1_and_Sentinel-4_launch_live and https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=mtgs1