Researchers asked AI to show a typical Australian dad: he was white and had an iguana Tama Leaver and Suzanne Srdarov for the Conversation

Big tech company hype sells generative artificial intelligence (AI) as intelligent, creative, desirable, inevitable and about to radically reshape the future in many ways. Published by Oxford University Press, our new research on how generative AI depicts Australian themes directly challenges this perception. We found when generative AIs produce images of Australia and Australians, these outputs are riddled with bias. They reproduce sexist and racist caricatures more at home in the country's imagined monocultural past. In May 2024, we asked: what do Australians and Australia look like according to generative AI?