Autonomous Video Generation with Counterfactual Controllability for Self-Evolving World Models

arXiv:2606.24152v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing literature claims that video generation essentially is world modelling. On the one hand, the claim is productive because it pushes generative AI beyond static images and toward temporally extended physical scenes. On the other hand, this claim dangerously relies on the belief that scaling visual prediction alone will automatically yield physical agents. We prefer a more accurate statement: video generation models learn a partial, implicit ...