Event details
When: 11.30-12.50pm, Thursday 16 November 2023
Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre, Melbourne
Creativity and cultural labour practices have long been considered resistant to automation. Our sector – though often underpaid and undervalued – took comfort in this, luxuriating in the knowledge that our work was profoundly and unequivocally human – even when it is (almost always) the product of the relation between human and tool. But the rise of generative artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models resulting in the recent and rapid public take up of tools and interfaces from Chat GPT (text) to MusicLM (audio), and Stable Diffusion and Midjourney (images)—call these claims into question.
Featuring Seb Chan (Director and CEO of ACMI), Dr Indigo Holcombe-James (Strategic Research Lead, ACMI), Dr Joel Stern (Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow, RMIT), and Professor Kimberlee Weatherall (Professor of Law, University of Sydney) this conversation considers what it means to create, distribute, and consume under these conditions when digital skills, capabilities, and institutional support are unevenly distributed. What capabilities do creators, institutions, and audiences need to develop, and how might we do this development in public
