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.

The Committee released its final report this week, with a list of 13 recommendations that seek to introduce AI-dedicated legislation, force transparency from AI companies owned by multinationals and ensure creators of copyrighted works used for training data are fairly remunerated.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's 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_