A computer monitor is shown as Ben Zhao, a professor of computer science, confers with his students at the University of Chicago on Feb. 2, 2023. Zhao and a team of computer science researchers designed a tool called Glaze that aims to thwart artificial intelligence models from learning a particular artist's style.
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SPECIAL MENTION: As visual artists raise concerns about AI ripping off their work, researchers at the University of Chicago came up with an innovative solution: Glaze, a tool that uses machine learning to make subtle changes to a work of art that are almost invisible to humans, but lead AI to interpret it as a completely different style.
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