Artificial intelligence has become a big thing in our daily lives and happened VERY quickly. Don't get me wrong, there are some ways AI has been amazing and helped (especially in the medical field), but that is AI that is created for a specific purpose and fed from a legitimate source related to what it needs to do. 
I'm not going to go off on a rant about the horrible (and unnecessary) AI I'm talking about, as you all should be aware of it and how bad it is (and the things it has done).

This petition is aimed at empowering Australians to make informed choices and protect themselves from unwanted AI influences. Making sure AI can't be sneaky and giving consequences to any who use AI (or own AI) in ways that are harmful.

It is destructive in so many ways:

• it's not good for the environment
• it steals from artists and writers
• it also can steal your identity
• it is inaccurate and spreads false information and partial information
• it takes jobs from people

We need to crack down on how we interact with it and how easy it is to discern what is or isn't AI, what it's sources are (how credible it is), what it is able to steal from us, and be able to EASILY opt-out.

FIRST
AI needs more transparency.
It should be visibly labelled as AI content/AI created - whether it's an image, a video, a note, a website, any of it. We should always be able to easily tell if something has been created using AI or by AI itself - there should be no need to have to learn the tricks to spot AI. This is across the internet and in real life. If you are buying a shirt and the image on it is AI generated it should say so on the label.
Just as we have labelling that tells us what is Australian made/owned (and on food how much from local or important ingredients), we should have similar labelling for AI things.
This gives people more power in making better choices on how much AI they wish to have in their lives.

SECOND
We need to be easily able to block AI from using our information and creations.
Many bigger websites (like consumer reports and credible news sites) have been able to put into their code to "disallow" AI bot and such, like ChatGTP from gathering anything from them. (This is also feeding the lack of good information AI has access to and people don't realise this.)
It probably doesn't always stop AI (we have heard in the news and such how some AI has broken the rules a number of times) but it does help and it means you can take them to court for breaking it.
Everyday Australians need access to easily blocking their information from AI - they shouldn't need to have to know how to do code or pay for an app.
We recently made all social media block kids under a certain age, we now need to make them (and other websites) allow us to easily block AI from our info, our content.

THIRD
We need to be able to opt-out, and easily
The amount of times I've come across a video that has shown me a new setting on a social media platform or an update on my phone that I wasn't told about in any other way but that allowed collection of my data and use of it with AI. Thank god for those videos showing me how to turn it off (and explaining what it does as usually the setting is weirdly worded).

AI doesn't just use your content that is has access to to give you better targeted ads, it also will use your art or your writing to create it's own art and writing. It will use your images to create people. Scammers and such use AI to steal identities or more accurately scam people. Yes, when you put something out on the internet you have an understanding that it can be risky, however we should be making it as safe as possible. 

These 3 basic things literally just making it easier to tell what is AI, what of yours AI has access to and easier to opt-out can make a BIG difference in how AI continues and gives a bit more power back to people. It can be so hard to not use AI, lets be responsible about it and take back some control.

We used to have those anti-piracy ads saying to us "you wouldn't steal a car"  and that "downloading films is stealing. Stealing is against the law. "
Well now we need to tell AI "Piracy. It's a crime." They shouldn't be able to download us!