Ben Y. Zhao

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Ben Zhao is Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at University of Chicago. He completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley (2004), and B.S. from Yale (1997). He is a Fellow of the ACM, and a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, MIT Technology Review's TR-35 Award (Young Innovators Under 35), USENIX Internet Defense Prize, ComputerWorld Magazine's Top 40 Technology Innovators award, IEEE ITC Early Career Award, and Faculty awards from Google, Amazon, and Facebook. His work has been covered by many media outlets including New York Times, CNN, NBC, BBC, MIT Tech Review, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and New Scientist. He has published over 180 articles in areas of security and privacy, machine learning, networking, and HCI, with more than 35,000 citations.

Participant Schedule

Saturday 10/28 10:00AM - 11:00AM

Create, Don’t Scrape: Glaze protection from AI

Room 101-102 | Steven Zapata, Jon Lam, Mia Araujo, Karla Ortiz, Ben Y. Zhao

Join the discussion of Art and Science as we delve into the threats of unregulated generative ai against artists. We will discuss the scraping of art without Consent, Credit, Compensation, and use of generative AI models to target artists through style mimicry. We will also discuss the development of adversarial tools (such as Glaze) to protect artists, their design, usage and limitations, followed by a Q & A"