Magistrate Judge Lisa J. Cisneros has set a Discovery Hearing set for June 6, 2025, 9:00 AM, by videoconference. The controversy stems from the plaintiffs’ expert Dr. Ben Y. Zhao’s participation in creating the Nightshade tool, which deploys “prompt-specific poisoning attacks that corrupt a model’s ability to respond to specific targeted prompts.” “Nightshade [is] a prompt-specific poisoning attack … Continue reading Hearing set to determine whether plaintiffs’ expert Dr. Ben Y. Zhao, who created tools to poison AI models data, should be allowed to see highly confidential material of Stability AI. Or should Zhao be disqualified?