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The AI lab waging a guerrilla war over exploitative AI

  • Melissa Heikkilä--MIT Technology Review
  • published date: 2024-11-13 10:00:00 UTC

Ben Zhao remembers well the moment he officially jumped into the fight between artists and generative AI: when one artist asked for AI bananas.  A computer security researcher at the University of Chicago, Zhao had made a name for himself by building tools to…

Yet it is simplistic to think that if you have a real security problem in the wild and youre trying to design a protection tool, the answer should be it either works perfectly or dont deploy it, Zhao… [+4046 chars]