AI is stealing Indigenous Australian art and churning out ‘Temu slop’, artist says
Sally Scales, chair of the National Gallery of Australia's First Nations advisory group, criticizes AI systems for scraping and misusing Indigenous Australian artwork to generate low-quality outputs she describes as 'Temu slop.' She argues the practice amounts to cultural theft and undermines both the agency of Indigenous artists and the authenticity of their work.
Key points
- AI systems trained on Indigenous art without consent
- Generated outputs described as degraded quality and culturally inauthentic
- Raises broader concerns about artist agency in AI training data
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