The program said the words, sentences and ideas Funder had crafted by her own hand was 73 per cent likely to have been written by AI. Anna Funder one of Australia’s most acclaimed authors Credit: Martin Ollman NewsWire / NCA NewsWireBut her advocacy not driven by self-interest. There’s a reason why AI companies stole books or journalism to train their models. In the face of that, human creativity, human curiosity and human actions can become a form of resistance. “We don’t give ourselves enough credit for the fact that we are a place where there is a public square, there is public discourse.