Beacon of hope as Senate releases final report to stop AI theft and remunerate creatives

Recommendations from the Select Committee on Adopting AI seek to address 'unprecedented theft' by Meta, Google and Amazon.
Hopes of AI theft being addressed thanks to recommendations from the latest report. Image: Winston Duke as part of the Visualising AI project by Google Deepmind, Unsplash. A rectangular platform is held by two illuminated columns against a black space.

On 21 July, ArtsHub tabled the list of 16 submissions made by organisations in the creative sector to the Senate Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI), which conducted an inquiry and a series of hearings on the matter since March this year.

This doubling down on the definition of “high-risk AI use” suggests the desire to fully encapsulate possible scenarios, but also highlight the amount of uncertainty on issues that may arise. The third recommendation specifically calls for the inclusion of general-purpose AI models (for example, large language models) in the non-exhaustive list of high-risk AI use, targeted at programs such as ChatGPT.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's former Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs, and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram: @lleizy_