Upcoming Webinar: Truth Behind the Tech
Join us and learn from leading AI experts where we will demystify generative AI and its copyright implications for creators and performers.
Date and time: Wednesday 18th February, 6pm - 7:45pm (panel from 6:45pm)
Audience: The first part is a closed member-only forum. The panel discussion opens up at 6:45pm to creator and performer members of CRA member organisations.
Place: This is a virtual event via Zoom.
As AI tools and generative AI services become increasingly prevelant, many creators and performers feel uncertain about what’s happening with their work. Are they being used without permission? How exactly do the systems use them to learn? Where are the works stored after training?
This webinar will explore how generative AI systems work under the hood. With technical experts, we will examine how they use creative works, the technical mechanisms of content generation, and where copyright infringement may take place when programs are trained and refined. We will discuss what datasets exist, their purpose and what happens to them.
The webinar will give creators and performers the technical understanding they need to advocate for their rights and make informed choices about their practice.
Panellists:
Ben Zhao
Ben Zhao is Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at University of Chicago. He completed his Ph.D. at U.C. Berkeley (2004), and B.S. from Yale (1997). He is a Fellow of the ACM, TED/AI speaker, and a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, MIT Technology Review's TR-35 Award (Young Innovators Under 35), TIME100/AI (100 Influential people in AI), USENIX Internet Defense Prize, Concept Art Association's Community Impact Award, ComputerWorld Magazine's Top 40 Technology Innovators award, IEEE ITC Early Career Award, and Faculty awards from Google, Amazon, and Facebook. His work has been covered by many media outlets including New York Times, CNN, NBC, ABC, BBC, MIT Tech Review, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and New Scientist.
His current research focuses on mitigating the harms of misused AI. He has published over 190 articles in areas of security and privacy, machine learning, networking, and HCI. He served as TPC (co-)chair for the World Wide Web conference (WWW 2016) and ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2018), and on the Steering Committee of IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML).
Mark Milstein
Mark is currently the Data Partnerships Lead at OpenOrigins, where he brings more than 20 years of experience in visual media to cultivate strategic partnerships that push the boundaries of AI innovation. He was previously the director of business development at vAIsual, (v-eye-sual) a Delaware-based technology company that pioneered the commercial deployment of ethical, envelope pushing AI solutions via Makery.ai; a revolutionary content factory where users who trade on their name, image and likeness can generate digital twins powered by ethical LoRA models, and the DataSetShop.com; a marketplace to legally license GDPR compliant biometric data and ethically sourced, legally clean licensed visual content for the generative AI/ ML space and beyond.
He was a director at Microstocksolutions (MSS), the leading provider of digital asset management solutions for the visual media industry, the Fortune 500 and beyond. He was also the key design architect behind VRmeta, a media asset management platform for video that pioneered in-frame and frame-level time based metadata discovery.
In his previous life, Mark covered more than 20 foreign wars as a photojournalist for Atlantic News Service, Time and Newsweek magazines, Knight-Ridder newspapers.
For more information about the event: contact@creatorsrightsalliance.org
