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Xcelerator · Person

Ben Zhao

Professor of Computer Science at University of Chicago

Artificial Intelligence

Signal

Region
Chicago
Industry
Artificial Intelligence
Source file
profiles/chicago_profiles.md:23
Status
published

Economic impact

Co-leads the SAND Lab at the University of Chicago, which developed Glaze and Nightshade, tools that block unauthorized scraping and training of digital artists' work by generative AI models.

Sources

  1. UChicago CS
  2. SAND Lab
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