The Guardian · AI
Sally Scales accuses AI of appropriating Indigenous Australian art
Pitjantjatjara artist Sally Scales says AI is appropriating First Nations art and turning it into low-quality output. As chair of the National Gallery of Australia’s First Nations advisory group, she argues that such use erodes artists’ agency and their work’s authenticity. She also views the appropriation of cultural knowledge as theft.
What to know
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Sally Scales is a Pitjantjatjara artist and chairs the National Gallery of Australia’s First Nations advisory group.
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She says AI’s appropriation of First Nations art undermines artists’ agency and their work’s authenticity, and amounts to theft of cultural knowledge.
Why it matters
The criticism focuses on concerns about artists’ agency, authenticity and cultural knowledge in AI’s use of First Nations art.
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