Ben Zhao
Glaze, Nightshade, & projects to protect human creatives at University of Chicago. Professor @UChicagoCS, MIT TR-35 innovator, ACM Fellow, TIME 100/AI, TED/AI. Most of the time I post as @TheGlazeProject.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ben Zhao“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”
- Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice. www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
- Reposted by Ben Zhao✨ new pinned post ✨ I'm Chloé, french concept & comic artist, currently working full time in video games I draw *lots* of lesbians, I love playing Go & I probably post too much selfies 🌸
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoA bunch of recent studies from random photos aimed to up my inking game a bit, and in the post below also from screencaps.
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- Reposted by Ben ZhaoAbsolute Batman variant cover. Watercolor 11”x17”
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoSir Paul McCartney backs calls to stop mass copyright theft by generative AI companies. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by Ben Zhao🦢 #princesstutu I have this print available on my Etsy ✌️
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- Reposted by Ben ZhaoHi, Bluesky. I suck at social media so not expecting much. Here's some of my art.
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoThis character sketch page is still one of my personal favorites
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- Reposted by Ben ZhaoNeverwinter Dragonslayer Hi there! Here's the Key art illustration I did for the Neverwinter Dragonslayer game. Ⓒ Gearbox Publishing.
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoThis is a good example of why generative AI opt-outs don’t work: this is my music, but I have no way of opting it out of AI training. I composed this piece, but I didn’t make the recording and I don’t control the website where it’s hosted. www.boosey.com/audio-clip/I... 1/4
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoCat Stepan #digitalart #cat
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoPailiah for Brandon Sanderson’s Rythm of War - The Stormlight Archive - Dragonsteel Entertainment #TheStormlightArchive #BrandonSanderson
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- Just a reminder that mimicry does not justify replacement. GenAI script generation would only accelerate how fast we tire of regurgitated formulaic content and remind us of how much we need human creativity.
- Big Tech is training AI on thousands of TV/film scripts. I spoke to showrunners, IP and business affairs lawyers — as well as the programmer at The Atlantic who examined this data set — to find out what happens next The latest Series Business @theankler.bsky.social theankler.com/p/tv-writers...
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoLet's see how this one goes. I'm here on bluesky now! I'm an illustrator and concept artist for fantasy game properties like Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: the Gathering.
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoA bipartisan special parliamentary inquiry in Australia today said big tech is “pillaging culture, data and creativity” to train AI, and must license and pay for training data. This is how all governments should respond to this technology. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoMeeting a fan when you are IRL.. picking up your pre ordered holiday bird (nice to meet you K!) Thankful for EVERYONE who likes what I’ve done ..it LITERALLY cannot exist as an artist without you! Wishing you all the best this thanksgiving!!
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoThis is me attempting to be better with social media, Hi!! Im a freelance fantasy oil painter that moonlights as a belly dancer at renfaires while I raise and train raptors for wildlife education programs. My life has taken some hard turns ✨️🙃💙
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoThis isn’t a statement.
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoHello new followers! I’m Zara, an artist working on Magic: The Gathering & drawing & painting for myself in my free time. Here are some of my favorite painting I’ve done 🖤
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoHello Bluesky! I’m Ryan and I do oil paintings, mostly for Magic: the Gathering and occasionally for myself
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoHere are some of the #MagicTheGathering cards I’ve made in the past! 🙌
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoFascinating. Fashion as an unavoidable consequence of trends and choices in economic and urban development.
- This account will mostly serve as a bridge between my friends in tech and academia, and my friends in the art and creative world. Expect lots of reposts of art.
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoFrom politicians to VC firms, everyone is falling out of love with the massive, money-oriented, global technology titans. In their place, we have the chance to build something open and trustworthy. @meredithmeredith.bsky.social writes:
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoI had only really started digital art when #GameofThrones ended (rest in pieces series 8) so this is my only GoT piece...so far
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoThank you for the artshare!
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoPost your most popular art post from Twitter Mine is “the world is already on fire”
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoPost your most popular art from Twitter Oh, no! The Pokemon broke free!
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoSo many new people came from somewhere. Time to introduce myself again! Hi! I'm Morrah, I like to paint pictures. Mostly my ocs and soulsborne fanart. I like all the dark, gothic, macabre, haunted things. I'm currently trying to climb out of severe burnout and find my artistic voice.
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoThe upside of trawling through my Twitter account to delete all my old photos and art is finding all that stuff again.
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoHearing the Call, an underwater exploration of a mermaid answering a call from one of her fellow mermaids in distress
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoRecent sketchbook doodle: Vincent Price startled.
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoThis piece took me a while to complete. During the creation of this painting I switched my studio, complete many jobs and projects and dived into fight with AI, so it took many hours “after work” and “between jobs” to finalize this piece 😅 Hope you like it!
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- Reposted by Ben Zhao“The Death I Bring” Pencils I made on a moleskine sketchbook page back in 2016.
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoLet’s do this Bluesky! Hi, I’m Karla Ortiz! I’m an artist in San Francisco. I work in films, games, MtG, books, fine art, and so on! In my free time I advocate for artists livelihoods and rights. I’m also a plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against GenAi companies (Andersen v Stability). Hi 👋
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoSome pigs are more equal than others.
- Honestly love this platform, in big part due to how many artists have found their way here. Late deadlines, piles of work, worries about the future of this country (and world), but I can scroll down and see some amazing art by some of my favorite people, and it restores my faith in humanity.
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoAs OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access. A thread, with links: >>
- I’m a dork. Completely forgot that I created a separate Glaze bsky account already. Will go do my updates there. @theglazeproject.bsky.social
- Very quick catchup post first. Webglaze has been updated to Glaze 2.1, which includes the latest updates for robustness. Glaze has gone well past 4 million downloads worldwide and Nightshade well past 1 million. Multiple new research publications on nightshade and detecting genAI. More coming soon
- So much recently activity on here. I guess it’s time for us to truly abandon that dumpster fire formerly known as Twitter. More updates to come in here soon. It’s been a few busy months but an especially eventful week.
- Quick announcement. The Nightshade paper has been peer reviewed and officially accepted at IEEE Security & Privacy, one of the big 3 computer security conferences. May 2024. sp2024.ieee-security.org We will update the arxiv paper w/ the camera-ready when completed.
- As some already noticed. The v1.1 Glaze goes hard. A little too hard, apparently due to a parameter bug. We are fixing now. Mac version already updated to v1.1.1 on the download page. Windows version will be fixed today (Sunday). Please download the v1.1.1 version later today. Thx for your patience!
- Ok. Glaze app bug fixed. Windows and Mac versions both at v1.1.1. Download away and hopefully there are no more surprises or issues.
- Announcement. We finally released the v1.1 update to the Glaze app. This now updates the app to match WebGlaze with our newest, most robust Glazing algorithm. Download Glaze App v1.1 for Windows/Mac, here: glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html
- Incidentally, we also attended a ceremony Thursday and grabbed some hardware. Thank you to Chicago Innovation for the honor!!
- It goes without saying.... (but still needs to be said) that none of this is possible without the help of so many amazing artists. Thank you all! 🥰
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoA/Ibros saying that Glaze doesn't work is the most bs I have ever heard. Glaze works. It is in their best interest to prevent you from using Glaze, they benefit from it. Keep yourself sane & don't believe a random troll over experts like @ravenben.bsky.social and scientific papers.
- Nightshade is on the way, a tool that tries to tip balance of power a bit back towards creators. Article from Melissa below. Also note: 1. Nightshade is 5x more potent than results in figure shown. 2. Details in technical paper. 3. No release yet. www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1...
- We will likely integrate it with Glaze and WebGlaze, and possibly with a stand-alone open source implementation. Nightshade operates similarly to Glaze, so usual things like compression, screenshots, resizing, conversion, do not affect nightshade. And there’s no antidote, only made up claims. 😝
- Reposted by Ben ZhaoI really love this project. Using open source models, @ravenben.bsky.social 's group created a tool that "confuses" machine learning when it tries to train on artists' work--making the model LESS ABLE to copy artistic concepts, the more it sees them. www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1...
