aceAI is stealing Indigenous Australian art and churning out ‘Temu slop’, artist says
AI is taking First Nations art and turning it into “Temu slop”, the Pitjantjatjara artist Sally Scales has said. Scales, the chair of the National Gallery of Australia’s First Nations advisory group, said the technology is undermining the agency of First Nations artists and the authenticity of their work and represents a “a theft” of cultural knowledge. Despite prime minister Anthony Albanese’s vow to protect Australian creatives from copyright theft, and the attorney general, Michelle Rowland, saying there are…
AI scraping and imitation of Indigenous art strips artists' names, alters work, and produces unattributed 'Aboriginal-style' goods that compete with First Nations artists and misrepresent cultural knowledge.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-11-01
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