Ben Y. Zhao (He/Him)

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. The award he's most proud of is the Community Impact Award from the Concept Art Association for his lab's work on Glaze and Nightshade. 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 190 articles in areas of security and privacy, machine learning, networking, and HCI.

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Friday 10/24, 2:30PM-3:30PM

The Fight for Artists Against GenAI

Ballroom G | Karla Ortiz | Mia Araujo | Ben Y. Zhao | Deana Igelsrud

This panel will cover the victories and challenges the art community has faced in the world of GenAI and the tools (Glaze, Nightshade, Hemlock) that can help us.

Each one of these panelists has helped shape the fight against unethical GenAI scraping and corporate overreach. Listen to how you can also join the fight to protect artists rights, human rights and combat overreaching and unethical GenAI

This panel’s guests are Ben Zhao (Professor at U of C + Creator of Glaze and Hemlock), Karla Ortiz Artist right’s advocate, plaintiff and Concept Artist for Film and games and Deana Igelsrud (Legislative & Political Advocate, Concept Art Association)

Moderated by Mia Araujo

Ben Y. Zhao (He/Him)

The Fight for Artists Against GenAI

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