Experiences and Lessons from Protecting Human Creatives Using Adversarial AI Tools

UChicago Yuen Campus in Hong Kong
168 Victoria Road, Mount Davis
Hong Kong

Generative AI has transformed our society in many ways, introducing new benefits along with significant harms to human creatives through its misuse. The SAND lab at University of Chicago Computer Science has been working for some time to help protect human creatives against these harms. It has been more than a year since the first release of Glaze in March 2023, an adversarial tool designed to provide protection to individual artists against style mimicry attacks commoditized by platforms such as civitai. Since its release, Glaze has been downloaded more than 2.6 million times by artists around the globe. More recently, the lab has released Nightshade, a tool that helps restore some balance in the power dynamics between content and IP owners, and AI model trainers who seek to scrape content for training. In this talk, the professors will describe some of the challenges they faced deploying tools like Glaze, and lessons they learned along the way. They will discuss progress made thus far, and their current and future plans to protect human creatives in a variety of modalities.

Speaker

Ben Zhao
Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago

Heather Zheng
Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago

In-person event
July 4, 2024 (Thursday)

Program

6:15 pm – 6:30 pm | Registration
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm | Talk by Professors
8:00 pm | Event ends

Online Webinar

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