AI is stealing Indigenous Australian art and churning out ‘Temu slop’, artist says

Chair of National Gallery’s First Nations advisory group says the technology is undermining artists’ agency and the authenticity of their work

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AI is taking First Nations art and turning it into “Temu slop”, the Pitjantjatjara artist Sally Scales has said.

Scales, the chair of the National Gallery of Australia’s First Nations advisory group, said the technology is undermining the agency of First Nations artists and the authenticity of their work and represents a “a theft” of cultural knowledge.