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"If I suck up to Donny enough, maybe he won't push petrol through the $3 mark. And he just might let me be uploaded to his SI Borg to rule Australia forever as well. And make cyborg clones of me too." #auspol #satire #USFascism #OzFascism #AIcartoons

I've been thinking about the Medicare "hack" by OpenAI agents and I stand with Sam Altman and his tech-bros! My thoughts are:

• is it really a "hack" if it's the cybersecurity equivalent of leaving the front door open and walking through it?

• given that no private information was revealed, just government statistics that weren't officially public, writing an e-mail to Services Australia was a reasonable way of telling the government. They wrote to publicdisclosures@servicesaustralia.gov.au which is an email address specifically used for reporting vulnerabilities! I heard people on the radio talking incredulously, as if e-mail is an informal and unserious method of communication. Many people seem to have this attitude, like if I want to tell someone something important, I have to use Facebook Messenger or write them a SMS and if I write them an email I must expect to be ignored. WHY?!?

#auspol #AI

The ghastly #Pulini and her fash mob alienate us alright. However, neoliberalism and the inequity it fosters provide fertile ground for the PHONies and the ALP need to take responsibility for enabling it.

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/09/one-nation-is-the-symptom-labor-must-treat-the-cause/ #OzFascism #OneNotion #auspol #AIart #AICartoons

It's so weird how The Australia Institute, The Unions, The Greens, our "climate independents", + our green NGOs are lobbying for a gas exports tax. Why is no one mentioning the 250,000 estimated deaths Norway has caused or that Australia is causing around 60,000 deaths a year with our fossil fuel exports?
Source ⬇️
#AusPol

Once again, the necessity for a Royal Commission into the #Murdocracy is highlighted, as the Asstralian's nefarious attempt to undermine temperature data is exposed.

Marduk doesn't care if the planet fries ... his actions indicate he is happy to take all life on the planet down with him. Has someone promised him he will rule forever if he is uploaded to the AIborg?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/25/bom-temperature-record-keeping-under-attack-again #auspol #environment #AIart

Displacements and misdirections

Bronwyn's adventures in fallacyland – Bronwyn Winter
#auspol
https://rss.sns.gdn/share/a33be1b52f1b94c0bf1bf333394cd7962658ba5d
https://bronwyndrw.substack.com/p/displacements-and-misdirections

Rideshare and food delivery prices could spike

Don't threaten me with good time! #auspol

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/the-cost-of-cutting-foreign-workers-fares-spike-in-taylor-s-migration-gamble-20261008-p613jx.html

Please sign the petition to #StopPalantir - 'Palantir's CEO just published a manifesto declaring that "some cultures are dysfunctional," and that Western tech firms have a "moral debt" to US military dominance.

They are now unmasked as a fascist political project backed by billionaires who despise democracy.

And the Albanese Government has been handing them the keys to Australia.' https://greens.org.au/campaigns/cancel-palantirs-contracts #USFascism #Palestine #auspol #AIart

13 year old arsonist recruited via Whatsapp. Thanks, Zuck! Yet more reasons to not give your children smartphones! Giving a child a basic phone rather than a smartphone removes one means by which organised criminals can recruit and direct them! #auspol
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-08/taylors-hill-firebombing-teen-took-orders-middlemen/107241702

This is farked.

Voice actors now have to compete against AI reproductions of their own voices.

And because they often don't hold the copyright to the ads of TV shows they work on, there's basically no recourse:

"Jacqui Duncan has voiced more than 5000 commercials for Australian radio and television. And, as she told [a NSW stare government committee on AI], she owns none of them.

"Last financial year, Duncan earned about 30 per cent of what she had consistently made in the three years before. She now works a second job.

"'AI voices and performances have definitely played a big part,' she told this masthead. Clients have also used them to push down the rates the union spent years fighting for, she said. 'It’s faster and cheaper, so therefore we should be as well.'

"Duncan, the NSW president of Equity, the performers’ division of the media union, gave evidence to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. 'I never gave consent for my work to be taken,' she said. 'Our members are already 62 per cent down on their work in the last 12 months,' Simon Kennedy, president of the Australian Association of Voice Actors, told the same hearing.
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"OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Google all put Canberra on notice – Australia’s copyright rules will dictate whether they train their flagship models on local soil. But copyright usually belongs to a studio, label, publisher or advertiser, not to the performer or writer who made the work. Under the deals and funds on the table, the alliance warned, the money flows to whoever holds the copyright.

"Duncan has never held the copyright to her own commercials. 'But if it’s my biometric data and 20 years of industry skills that go into those performances, I should have a say,' she said. Clients, she said, should not get a performance at all if it 'only exists because mine and thousands of others’ training, performance skills, experience and creative consciousness have all been whittled down to ones and zeros, fed into an LLM (for free) and then exported'.
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"She knows voice artists and actors who have been replaced by AI copies of themselves, their voices or faces used in new campaigns without consent or payment.

"When one colleague asked a producer why he had not even been consulted, Duncan said, the producer replied that he 'assumed consent was given'."

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/i-never-gave-consent-the-australians-being-replaced-with-copies-of-themselves-20261010-p613x1.html

#AI #VoiceActor #VoiceActing #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #auspol #NSWpol #Gemini #Claude #Anthropic #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Google #AIBubble #capitalism #business #politics #nsw #nswpol

Oh ChatGPT, make me a picture of Pauline Hanson, David Shoebridge and Vladimir Putin walking through the ruined streets of Kyiv hand in hand, looking lovingly into each other's eyes with the flag of the Russian Federation fluttering overhead. #auspol

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/don-t-burn-your-bridges-shoebridge-warns-ukrainian-community-over-military-aid-20261014-p615kk.html

Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: The One Nation vote: a map of government neglect

#auspol
Episode webpage: https://shows.acast.com/democracy-sausage/episodes/the-one-nation-vote-a-map-of-government-neglect

Media file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/democracy-sausage/e/6acc31168f90a39dfc4a54b9/media.mp3

More Australians believe in political violence than go to church each week. This won’t end well

I blame social media. #auspol

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/more-australians-believe-in-political-violence-than-go-to-church-each-week-this-won-t-end-well-20261016-p615tp.html