In one example, an AI image generator produced an image of what was meant to be an elderly First Nations man – in a traditional Papuan headdress.

In other words, photos run the risk of becoming part of poverty porn. To be sure, asking Indigenous Peoples for their permission before taking their photos won't stop the long history of abuses ...

But when an AI model is trained on images of Australian Indigenous peoples' art, clothing, or artifacts, it isn't also necessarily fed detailed information of which language group each image is ...