Ben Zhao
@ravenben.bsky.social
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
Sigh. It is disappointing to the highest degree
September 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Sigh. It is disappointing to the highest degree
It’s hard, when
A) legislators don’t understand the tech. To be fair, most CS faculty don’t even understand generative AI and its limitations.
and
B) when AI companies lobby and threaten governments with taking themselves and their (so far nonexistent) billions of revenue and taxes away
A) legislators don’t understand the tech. To be fair, most CS faculty don’t even understand generative AI and its limitations.
and
B) when AI companies lobby and threaten governments with taking themselves and their (so far nonexistent) billions of revenue and taxes away
December 5, 2024 at 4:35 AM
It’s hard, when
A) legislators don’t understand the tech. To be fair, most CS faculty don’t even understand generative AI and its limitations.
and
B) when AI companies lobby and threaten governments with taking themselves and their (so far nonexistent) billions of revenue and taxes away
A) legislators don’t understand the tech. To be fair, most CS faculty don’t even understand generative AI and its limitations.
and
B) when AI companies lobby and threaten governments with taking themselves and their (so far nonexistent) billions of revenue and taxes away
10 is hard. I think I'm only doing 6 and I have to compare letters to make sure I'm being sufficiently original and detailed enough for each of the folks I'm writing for. 10 would just be too much.
November 30, 2024 at 7:24 PM
10 is hard. I think I'm only doing 6 and I have to compare letters to make sure I'm being sufficiently original and detailed enough for each of the folks I'm writing for. 10 would just be too much.
Indeed. For those who have worked a lifetime to train in creativity, whether it’s in the visual arts or in story telling, asking them to use a genAI model “for efficiency” is like placing them into handcuffs and asking them to point at one of a few hundred templates with their chin.
November 29, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Indeed. For those who have worked a lifetime to train in creativity, whether it’s in the visual arts or in story telling, asking them to use a genAI model “for efficiency” is like placing them into handcuffs and asking them to point at one of a few hundred templates with their chin.