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

It rips the authenticity out of it, because it's not been made by anyone who has the connection the artist's family lineage is not there, the lived experience is not there.' It rips the authenticity out of it, because it's not been made by anyone who has the connection the artist's family lineage is not there, the lived experience is not there.' 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 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. But experts are particularly worried about the risks to Indigenous cultural and intellectual property (ICIP) and in a world where AI companies can hoover up anything that may be found online, including songs and paintings that include sacred and cultural knowledge.