The Australian Writers’ Guild welcomes the recommendation from the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training’s Digital Transformation of Workplaces inquiry that would see developers required to prove that their AI systems have not been trained using creatives’ intellectual property. Recommendation 17 of the inquiry requires “developers to demonstrate that AI systems have been developed using lawfully…
Continue readingThe Australian Writers’ Guild welcomes the recommendations of the Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI), including an urgent call for transparency around the use of copyrighted works by AI developers and fair remuneration for creators. The report contains a damning assessment of the “widespread theft of tens of thousands of Australians’ creative works by big multinational…
Continue readingThe Australian Writers’ Guild welcomes the recommendations of the Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI), including an urgent call for transparency around the use of copyrighted works by AI developers and fair remuneration for creators. The report contains a damning assessment of the “widespread theft of tens of thousands of Australians’ creative works by big multinational…
Continue readingThe Australian Writers’ Guild welcomes the NSW Government’s response to the parliamentary inquiry into AI and its commitment to ensuring the rights of artists are protected. Recommendation three of the inquiry has been accepted by the government, namely “that the NSW Government advocate to the Australian Government for greater protection of the copyright and intellectual property of…
Continue readingThe Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG) welcomes Screen Australia’s key principles for the approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a positive step forward for the agency and wider industry. AWG and AWGACS Group CEO Claire Pullen said: “We’re pleased to see these guidelines provide a clear direction on what the ethical use of AI should look like in…
Continue readingThe Australian Writers’ Guild welcomes the Government’s proposed guardrails for the safe and responsible use of Artificial Intelligence in high-risk settings, which would include mandatory transparency around provenance of data and how datasets are used in AI systems. AWG and AWGACS Group CEO Claire Pullen said: “These guardrails are a positive step towards establishing a regulatory framework that supports the…
Continue readingThe use of AI in the creative sector is a critical issue for writers. Without immediate regulation, its use poses an existential threat to the Australian creative industries and audiences. We’ve made a joint industry submission to the Senate Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence to highlight these threats and propose a framework for the safe and responsible use of AI….
Continue readingThe Australian Writers’ Guild has taken a firm stand against the unregulated use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Australia’s creative industries, issuing a position paper outlining the imminent threat posed by AI and an extensive framework for the appropriate regulation of its use to protect workers and audiences. As the world learns that the Writers…
Continue readingEarlier this week, the Atlantic published a search tool that allowed authors to search for their books in a dataset that has been used to train generative-AI systems. The search tool can be accessed here. The dataset – ‘Books3’ – contains approximately 183,000 pirated books, plays and other literary works. Generative AI systems have been developed or trained by scraping, or…
Continue readingThe Australian Writers’ Guild has taken a firm stand against the unregulated use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Australia’s creative industries, issuing a position paper outlining the imminent threat posed by AI and an extensive framework for the appropriate regulation of its use to protect workers and audiences. As the world learns that the Writers…
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