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AI Scraping and Imitating Indigenous Australian Art, Artists Say
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AI-generated Aboriginal-style designs cause cultural and economic harm and compete with the work of First Nations artists.
What happened
Pitjantjatjara artist Sally Scales and experts say AI is scraping First Nations art and generating 'Aboriginal-style' designs sold without attribution on sites including Temu, Shein and Amazon. A submission to a parliamentary inquiry cites documented AI scraping of Indigenous art centre websites that removed artists' names and altered their work. The government says it is still consulting on copyright changes.