Submission generator for the Productivity Commission's inquiry into AI and Data

Telling Australian stories is vital to our culture, and helps us find connections across our diverse community. If we love hearing from Australian voices, we cannot let the AI industry exploit our vibrant creative sector.

AI companies are some of the biggest in the world, and they expect to earn big money in countries like Australia. AI companies expect to earn money that should be going to Australian creative workers.

AI companies are taking over everything, including our cultural industries. We need to give communities the opportunity to experiment with creativity rather than replace it with AI generated content.

It is hard enough to make ends meet as a creative. We cannot allow what little income creatives earn to be siphoned-off by the billionaire owners of the largest companies in the world.

Creators put our hearts and souls into our work. It’s both heartbreaking and nauseating to see it sucked up by machines and turned into ersatz copies of the real thing that have had our creative spark extinguished.

AI companies should be required to gain consent from, and make payment to, the creators of any work that they want to use to train their systems

AI companies should be required to publish what content they have ingested into their systems, so that we can audit and confirm that our work is not unfairly included.

AI companies must remove from their systems any existing content for which they do not have a licence.

Creators should be able to refuse to allow AI companies access to their work, even when it is published on the Internet for public consumption.

AI companies should be required to clearly label AI-generated content, so that it is not confused with genuinely human-created works.

The productivity commission should recognise that it is human creators who create productivity, not AI systems that plagiarise it.

Thank you for reading my concerns. I hope that we can have some AI regulation that protects Australian creative workers like me from AI companies.