Mia Goth's representatives told The Verge that the verified fan account miagoth_ spread AI-generated fake images of her wearing a printed T-shirt, which were widely reported as real. The account has over a million followers and removal requests went unheeded. Meta's rules do not require static AI images to be labeled, and by Tuesday morning the account appeared to have been emptied.
According to Bloomberg, Epic Games plans to use AI to generate code and art for an unannounced Disney shooter, which has been delayed from its original March release window. Development teams are being asked to use tools like Anthropic's Claude more; one director said code is no longer hand-written, and all art will be produced with full AI workflows.
According to Bloomberg, Epic Games is moving to AI-first development in its partnership with Walt Disney, with models such as Anthropic's Claude writing all code and generating all art assets, while human developers manage and steer the work.
Nikon disqualified the original first-place video in its Small World in Motion competition for not complying with the contest rules on generative AI. The video, by Dr. Ning Xu, claimed to show cilia moving in the airway of a child with PCD; after questions were raised online about its authenticity, Dr. Xu acknowledged on LinkedIn using AI-assisted post-processing to distinguish and visualize reconstructed features in grayscale images.
AI ad creative platform Melius announced on Tuesday a total of $25 million in funding, including a $20 million Series A led by CRV and a $5 million seed round led by General Catalyst. Founded by three former Ramp engineers, the company pivoted to a "creative work agent lab" that generates ad assets and campaigns after abandoning its original AI marketing tool and rewriting its entire codebase, and says it topped $1 million in annualized revenue within two months of stealth exit in July.