The 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…
The 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…
The 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….
The 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…
Earlier 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…
The 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…
Earlier 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…