Australian Writers Guild

Draft guidance for AI companies won't ensure that they comply with the AI Act or EU copyright law, say rightsholders.

AI is impacting all industries but none more than the publishing business model which lives or dies based on the content it creates. The tech industry promises AI efficiency gains and turbocharged creativity.

Trump, DOGE, and big tech companies like OpenAI and Meta don't care about free access to books unless it benefits their AI.

Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI is developing a new large language model with creative writing skills that have already wowed the company's CEO. But a short story produced by the unnamed, unreleased model has proven to be divisive.

If businesses only see AI as a cost-cutting tool, society risks missing out on its real benefits — that's why AI investment should be focused on improving how people and technology work together, not just on cutting jobs.

Eric Shamlin, Television Academy governor and chair of its AI Task Force, urged members to take on an advocacy role in developing AI policies and frameworks, during a keynote at Saturday's TV Academy AI Summit. "We must now lead," he asserted. "We can't afford to sit back and wait for others to shape how AI is implemented into our industry."

If you suspect a student of using AI to cheat on their assignment, take the submitted work and ask an AI tool to rewrite the work for you. In most cases I've encountered, an AI tool will rewrite its own work in the laziest manner possible, substituting synonyms instead of changing any material elements of the "original" work.

We're working on a product that is so valuable to Google… When we advocate for better conditions... we're intimidated or fired."