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Reminder, we'll be at a panel at Comic Con today, 2pm, discussing AI and creators. Join us if you're at SDCC!! Room 32AB!

I rarely post recommendations, but this warrants an exception. This is "Human Raised," a new book by my colleague and ETCH advisor Dr. Dana Suskind, a NYT best-selling author, surgeon, professor, and expert in childhood development at Univ of Chicago.

Exciting busy day today. Visited my old friend, and one of the best tech journalists in the business, Kashmir Hill at NY Times. Took a photo of an amazing piece of history in NYT’s museum, the letter greenlighting the NYT crossword puzzle in 1941! Headed to give a keynote at ArtLaw conference now.

Happy to announce that I (Ben) will be part of a AI and Creativity panel at San Diego Comic-con in July! We will discuss ongoing legal, legislative and technological efforts to protect artists. AI and the Creative Industries: Where We Stand, Sunday, 7/26 2026, 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Room: 32AB

Quick note for those who use both Nightshade and Glaze. If you run an image through Nightshade 1.1 and then run the result through Glaze 2.2, you get an error. This is a naming bug, easily fixed. You just rename the file after nightshade is done. Then glaze. Ty to btsensej.bsky.social for the fix.

Update #3: We have fixed the "TRUE" bug on Nightshade that's been tormenting us for quite some time. The fix also comes with updated drivers for new NVidia chips. The Windows version is ready and available: nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html The MacOS version still needs a bit of time.

Update #2: Quicksilver, a detector for AI-generated music. Most folks today are not aware that AI-generated music (entire songs generated by AI models) are growing rapidly. Today, there are more AI-generated songs than human-created songs arriving each week on platforms like Spotify.

Happy Monday. Today we're making a few updates/announcements. First up: our nonprofit ETCH is alive on the web. etch-humanity.org ETCH: Ethical Technology and Computing for Humanity. ETCH is not another AI nonprofit. It is a nonprofit that explicitly prioritizes people over AI.

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Not to be mysterious or whatever, but Monday will be a big news day for us. Multiple updates coming...

Glaze 2.2 is out. It is an update for Windows users to support recent NVidia GPUs (including 50xx GPUs). Downloads at: glaze.cs.uchicago.edu Mac users do not need to update. We are also updating Nightshade to fix the True bug and also support new GPUs. That update is coming in the next few days.

News on Nightshade/Glaze. 1. We're testing updated Glaze for new NVidia GPUs 2. We've (finally) identified the source of the "True" bug in Nightshade. Good news: we can fix it. Less good news: it's in a error reporting routine, meaning there was an underlying error that triggered it. 3. more to come