Yapay Zekâ ve Kültürel Üretimin Politik Çerçevelenmesi: Uluslararası Kamu Politikalarından Örneklerin Tartışılması

The creative economy is defined as a new economic activity area subject to global competition. However, the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and cultural production, as a relatively new technology, has been underrepresented in Western literature and policies. This study discusses the context of AI and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) policies in relation to their cultural and societal implications. Departing from previous studies suggesting that algorithms managed by platforms inadequately encompass cultural authenticity, AI is here considered as a domain containing cultural risks. This study aims to reveal the disadvantages of the Global South by discussing the concerns of exclusion and bias of AI through the public policy texts of developed countries and to contribute to the public policy development process of Turkey in relation to the field of culture. To this end, policy texts on AI and GAI from the eight OECD countries investing the most in AI, the European Union, Japan and Saudi Arabia have been analyzed. Through policy framing analysis, the roles of cultural institutions in policy-making, the framing of bias and cultural diversity themes in the texts, and how policy interventions in the AI field are framed have been examined. In light of the findings that AI is implicitly positioned as a new area of colonialism in developed countries policy documents, a perspective sensitive to cultural policies is proposed for Turkey to produce an inclusive AI policy based on her public administration tradition and technology infrastructure investments.