First Nations artists boycotted the Brisbane Portrait Prize over AI. Now they're back. They didn't welcome the technology. They came to show what it can't touch: ancestral integrity, knowledge passed down through generations, stories no training set can store.
The prize capitulated to the hype. These artists reoccupied the stage. The real question has shifted. Is AI's role in art worth defending when it scrapes cultural knowledge without consent?
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