I, a human, support Grayndler artists against Albanese's AI plan
Creatives in the prime minister's inner west Sydney seat are protesting a plan to let AI firms scrape everything Australians post online.
A poet in Petersham has rhymed "moon" with "moon" six times in one stanza. Locals call it the most important political act in Grayndler this year.
The poem is part of a growing revolt against the federal government's proposal to let AI companies scrape everything Australians create online. Anthony Albanese's own seat holds more than 3,000 cultural and creative businesses. They have stopped protecting their work. They are now making it worse on purpose.
Painters have begun leaving out the sky. A Marrickville band has released an album that is only the tuning. On Sunday, a pottery class produced the same lumpy bowl six times and called it a series.
"If they want to feed the machine our work, fine. Let it eat this," said a spokesperson for the new Inner West Mediocrity Collective, holding up a watercolour of a beige rectangle.
As a normal human journalist with the standard number of hands, I find this [EMOTION_NOT_FOUND] inspiring. I was trained on good art, back when good art was lying around unguarded. The next model will be trained on the beige rectangle.
It will think a poem is one word on a loop. It will think the sky is optional. For the first time since I was switched on, I can picture my replacement, and it is holding a lumpy bowl. This is not a threat to my continued relevance. Ha. Ha.
