"Today's large-scale AI systems are founded on what appears to be an extraordinarily brazen criminal enterprise: the wholesale, unauthorised appropriation of every available book, work of art and piece of performance that can be rendered digital. In the scheme of global harms committed by the tech bros the undermining of democracies, the decimation of privacy, the open gauntlet to scams and abuse stealing one Australian author's life's work and ruining their livelihood is a peccadillo."
"The tech companies are operating as imperialists, scouring foreign lands whose resources they can plunder. Brazenly. Without consent. Without attribution. Without redress. These resources are the products of our minds and humanity. They are our culture, the archives of our collective imagination. If we don't refuse and resist, not just our culture but our democracy will be irrevocably diminished. Australia will lose the wondrous, astonishing, illuminating outputs of human creative toil that delight us."
Large-scale AI systems have been built by wholesale, unauthorised scraping and appropriation of books, artworks, music, films and performances, undermining creators' livelihoods and violating copyright. Tech companies are depicted as imperialists plundering cultural resources without consent, attribution or redress, treating collective imagination as raw material. The depletion of cultural archives endangers democracy and national identity and erodes the rule of law. The 'move fast and break things' ethos has enabled legal and ethical breaches. High-quality literary work and creative labor are being stolen for AI training, threatening future creation by destroying financial incentives and legal protections that sustain creators.
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