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The ASA welcomes the recommendation made in the report from the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence (AI), stating that the NSW Government ought to advocate to the Federal Government for greater protection of the copyright and IP of creators in light of the challenges presented by generative AI.
The Inquiry was established on 27 June 2023 in order to inquire into and report on artificial intelligence in New South Wales.
In our submission to this inquiry we outlined the risks generative AI poses to the professional lives of creators and the social, cultural, and economic value of their creative labour. While we acknowledged copyright law is a matter for the Federal Government, we encouraged the NSW Government to work with and encourage the Federal Government to take steps to foster and protect our creative industries.
Olivia Lanchester, ASA CEO, says, “We welcome this recommendation and are pleased to see the threat to creator livelihoods being acknowledged. Government has an important role to play in insisting on transparency over training datasets from AI developers and insisting on consent and compensation when creators’ work is exploited by AI platforms for commercial gain. Until we have fairly trained models, generative AI and downstream uses of generative AI will be tainted and viewed as exploitative and illegitimate.”
We are pleased to see that the Parliamentary Committee has heard creator concerns and look forward to the NSW Government’s response to the Committee’s final report, which is due in October. Read the full Inquiry report.
In international AI news, US senators have introduced to the Senate bipartisan legislation – the NO FAKES Act – addressing unauthorised AI-generated imitations and fakes that are plaguing creators and syphoning away their income. This Bill is intended to prevent unauthorised digital replicas of a person’s voice or visual likeness. While not yet passed, it represents an appetite to protect creators, celebrities, and individuals from AI-generated exploitation of their persona. Read more about the bill at the US Authors Guild website.
