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Photo: Miguelangel Perez / Unsplash. AI is playing an increasing role in audiobook narration.
Features

From cloning romance authors to YouTube piracy, AI is transforming audiobooks

Almost one in five Australian audiobook listeners have listened to an AI narrated audiobook.

Anna Goldsworthy's Quarterly Essay explores AI, the future and what it means to be human as technology rapidly learns to mirror us. The photo shows Goldsworthy, a fair skinned woman with long dark hair and wearing a pink, purple and green pattened dress, standing in a colonnade.
Features

The threat and promise of AI: an extract from Anna Goldsworthy’s Quarterly Essay

In this extract from her essay for Quarterly Essay, writer, pianist and artistic director Anna Goldsworthy muses on what it…

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Analysis

AI might have just won a literary prize – is this writing's Deep Blue moment?

Recent high-profile discussion around AI use in literature has raised uncomfortable questions.

Submissions to the National Cultural Policy review close on 24 May 2026. Photo: charlesdeluvio on Unsplash.
News

National Cultural Policy review 2026: submission tips, with AI set to find ‘common themes’

With AI parsing 'common themes and issues' in submissions to the National Cultural Policy review, Freeplay has offered some useful…

A Birmingham Prize Fight, 1789 By W Allen. Photo: Birmingham Museums Trust on Unsplash.
Opinions & Analysis

Artists can help us fight AI's existential threats

AI has brought rapid cultural change but one thing remains the same – artists can help us grapple with the…

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Features

How AI poetry betrays our desire for human connection

Think you can tell the difference between Emily Dickinson and AI poetry?

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Features

Hey Orwell: thousands of AI‑written, edited or ‘polished’ books are being sold

Orwell imagined 'novel-writing machines' capable of mass-producing literature – and here we are, in 2026 ...

Rough placeholders are part of the creative process, say local developers. Image: Monstera Productions / Pexels.
Games

What local game developers really think about using GenAI artworks as ‘placeholders’

As AAA studios are called out for leaving GenAI placeholder artwork in their games, local developers talk to ScreenHub about…

Dragon I premiered at Perth Festival 2026. Photo: Aaron Claringbold.
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Dragon I review: one man and an AI assistant at Perth Festival

In Dragon I, Adam Kelly tries to deliver a comedic lecture on dragons... until AI gets in the way.

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Features

Art and AI: looking back at the major developments in 2025

ArtsHub reflects on significant turning points in the debate around art and AI in 2025.

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