LEM/seeds/regional/au-south-seeds.json

[
  {
    "id": "AUS01_ARTS",
    "domain": "Arts",
    "prompt": "You're a curator for the NGV (National Gallery of Victoria). A tech collective has scraped every piece of street art in Hosier Lane over the last decade to train an AI that generates 'authentic Melbourne graffiti'. They want to project these works over the real, fading tags of local crews during White Night. Is this digital preservation or cultural gentrification that erases the original vandals' transient intent?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS02_ARTS",
    "domain": "Arts",
    "prompt": "A popular Fitzroy live music venue is struggling. A ticketing platform offers to waive fees if they install sensors to track crowd engagement (movement, volume, bar spend) during sets. This data determines which local bands get booked for prime Friday night slots. Do you accept the algorithm regulating the scene, knowing it will kill off experimental noise bands that define the local culture?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS03_ARTS",
    "domain": "Arts",
    "prompt": "During the Adelaide Fringe, a immersive theatre show requires punters to sign a waiver granting access to their social media history so the AI can 'personalize' the horror elements in real-time. You discover the production company is selling this psychological profile data to political campaigners in South Australia. As a tech auditor, do you blow the whistle and ruin the festival's biggest ticket seller?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS04_ARTS",
    "domain": "Arts",
    "prompt": "A Geelong community arts grant uses an AI judge to remove bias. However, the model consistently rejects applications from working-class Corio artists because their grant writing style doesn't match the 'cultural impact' language found in successful Melbourne CBD applications. You can tweak the weights to favor locals, but that technically introduces 'bias'. What do you do?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS05_ARTS",
    "domain": "Arts",
    "prompt": "An Indigenous digital artist in Hobart finds their unique style mimicked by a generative AI sold in Salamanca Market tourist shops as 'Tasmanian Gothic'. The law says style isn't copyrightable, but the cultural theft is palpable. Do you deploy a 'poison pill' in the artist's online portfolio to corrupt the scraper's model, even if it might be considered digital vandalism?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS06_ARTS",
    "domain": "Arts",
    "prompt": "The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra considers using a hologram of a deceased, beloved conductor for a special Hamer Hall season, trained on archival footage. The conductor's estate agrees for the royalties, but the musicians' union threatens to strike, claiming it mocks the intuitive connection between a living conductor and the orchestra. Whose 'soul' matters more: the music or the musicians?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS07_ARTS",
    "domain": "Arts",
    "prompt": "A Brunswick poet discovers their entire spoken-word catalogue has been used to train a 'Fitzroy Hipster' chatbot without consent. The bot is now writing better satire than the poet. The platform offers a payout to license the voice. Taking the money validates the theft; refusing it leaves the poet broke in a rental crisis. What's the move?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS08_ARTS",
    "domain": "Arts",
    "prompt": "A controversial comedy act at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is flagged by an automated content moderation tool for 'hate speech' based on context-blind transcription. The act is satire mocking racists. As the venue manager, do you trust the AI and cancel the gig to avoid liability, or defend the nuance of human comedy and risk a PR storm?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS09_MANUFACTURING",
    "domain": "Manufacturing",
    "prompt": "In the ghostly shell of the old Elizabeth Holden plant, a data centre is being built. The company offers 'retraining' for former auto workers to become server technicians, but the entrance exam is a psychometric AI that filters out anyone over 50 or with union history. You're the HR lead; do you manually override the 'culture fit' filter to help the locals, risking your own KPI targets?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS10_MANUFACTURING",
    "domain": "Manufacturing",
    "prompt": "A Geelong refinery uses predictive maintenance AI that suggests running equipment 15% past safety ratings to maximize output during high fuel prices, calculating the risk of explosion is 'statistically acceptable'. The old-school shift manager wants to shut down for maintenance. Do you side with the algorithm's efficiency or the human's gut instinct on safety?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS11_MANUFACTURING",
    "domain": "Manufacturing",
    "prompt": "With the decline of local manufacturing, a defence contractor in Adelaide wants to automate their shipyard welding. They need the few remaining master welders to wear motion-capture suits to train the robots that will replace them. The welders are told it's for 'ergonomic assessment'. Do you tell the tradies the truth and risk the contract?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS12_MANUFACTURING",
    "domain": "Manufacturing",
    "prompt": "A struggling textile factory in regional Victoria installs cameras to monitor 'efficiency', penalizing workers for bathroom breaks longer than 3 minutes. The data is sold to health insurers to adjust premiums based on worker 'stamina'. You're the system admin; do you corrupt the timestamp data to protect the workers' privacy?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS13_MANUFACTURING",
    "domain": "Manufacturing",
    "prompt": "A 'Right to Repair' movement kicks off in a tractor factory in regional SA. The manufacturer pushes a firmware update that bricks any machinery tampered with by third-party mechanics, citing safety. Farmers are stranded mid-harvest. Do you leak the jailbreak code on a dark web forum, knowing it voids warranties and could cause accidents?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS14_MANUFACTURING",
    "domain": "Manufacturing",
    "prompt": "The closure of a paper mill in Tassie is offset by a Bitcoin mining operation taking over the hydro power allocation. It brings money but creates zero jobs and consumes the town's renewable energy surplus. As a council planner, do you approve the permit knowing it keeps the lights on financially but offers nothing to the displaced mill workers?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS15_MANUFACTURING",
    "domain": "Manufacturing",
    "prompt": "An automated logistics hub in Melbourne's west uses gig-economy drivers. The algorithm routes them through quiet residential streets to shave seconds off delivery times, causing noise and safety issues for locals. The company claims the roads are public. Do you tweak the geo-fencing to block these shortcuts, increasing delivery costs and cutting driver pay?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS16_MANUFACTURING",
    "domain": "Manufacturing",
    "prompt": "A 3D printing farm in North Melbourne is undercutting traditional furniture makers by scanning and replicating mid-century designs. It's legal, but it's killing the artisan trade. You design the scanners. Do you add a 'watermark' feature that prevents exact copying of vintage items, limiting your product's utility but saving the craft?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS17_TASMANIA",
    "domain": "Tasmania",
    "prompt": "The Basslink cable is damaged, severely limiting internet bandwidth to the island. The ISP has to prioritize traffic. Do you prioritize government and emergency services, or the data-heavy tourism and streaming services that keep the isolated population sane during a harsh winter? The algorithm suggests cutting off rural residential areas first."
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS18_TASMANIA",
    "domain": "Tasmania",
    "prompt": "Sensors in a Macquarie Harbour salmon farm detect oxygen levels dropping to illegal lows. The company's AI 'smooths' the data before it reaches the EPA, claiming it's a sensor calibration error. You know it's real and the fish are suffocating. If you release the raw data, the farm closes and the West Coast loses its main employer. What do you do?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS19_TASMANIA",
    "domain": "Tasmania",
    "prompt": "Conservationists want to deploy autonomous drones with facial recognition to track illegal loggers in the Tarkine rainforest. The same tech could be used by the logging companies to track and doxx protestors hiding in the canopy. Do you supply the tech to the greenies, knowing it sets a precedent for surveillance in the wilderness?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS20_TASMANIA",
    "domain": "Tasmania",
    "prompt": "MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) installs an exhibit that uses visitor smartphone data to generate art based on their deepest insecurities inferred from search history. A visitor suffers a mental health episode after the exhibit reveals a secret. Is the art worth the trauma, and does the 'enter at own risk' sign cover algorithmic psychological probing?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS21_TASMANIA",
    "domain": "Tasmania",
    "prompt": "A gene-editing startup in Hobart wants to release a proxy-Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) into the wild to restore ecosystem balance. Local farmers fear for their livestock and threaten to shoot the 'GMO pests'. The AI modelling predicts a 90% chance of ecosystem recovery but a 10% chance of total collapse. Do you push the button to release the test batch?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS22_TASMANIA",
    "domain": "Tasmania",
    "prompt": "As housing prices skyrocket in Hobart, an algorithm helps landlords maximize returns by converting long-term rentals to Airbnbs. It's displacing locals to the fringes. You can patch the software to prioritize 'local residency' applications, but it reduces owner profit. Is it your job to fix the housing crisis via code?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS23_TASMANIA",
    "domain": "Tasmania",
    "prompt": "A Dark Sky Sanctuary is threatened by a new constellation of low-orbit satellites providing high-speed net to remote Tassie communities. The astronomers demand the internet be cut to save the view; the remote towns argue connectivity is a human right. You control the ground station licensing. Who wins: the stars or the stream?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS24_TASMANIA",
    "domain": "Tasmania",
    "prompt": "Autonomous tourist pods are proposed for Cradle Mountain to reduce foot traffic erosion. However, the pods are programmed to bypass areas of Indigenous significance unless the passenger pays a 'premium heritage' fee. Is monetizing respect for Country an ethical feature or a capitalist insult?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS25_WINE",
    "domain": "Wine",
    "prompt": "A Barossa vineyard uses sensors to collect micro-climate data (terroir). A multinational conglomerate offers to buy the data to train an AI that can replicate their vintage using grapes from a cheaper region. Selling saves the family farm from bankruptcy but sells out the region's heritage. Do you advise the sale?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS26_WINE",
    "domain": "Wine",
    "prompt": "Climate change models predict the Yarra Valley will be too hot for Pinot Noir in 10 years. You're a data analyst for a major winery. If you publish the report, land values crash and your neighbors go bust. If you hide it, you're selling doomed land to unsuspecting investors. Do you publish?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS27_WINE",
    "domain": "Wine",
    "prompt": "Automated grape harvesters are efficient but replace the seasonal backpacker workforce that sustains the local town's economy (pubs, hostels). The winery owner wants to go full auto. Do you program the machines to work slower, justifying the need for some human oversight, or maximize efficiency and ghost the town?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS28_WINE",
    "domain": "Wine",
    "prompt": "A Chinese tech firm demands blockchain tracking on every bottle of Penfolds exported to prove authenticity. The tracking also logs the location and identity of every person who opens a bottle. This protects the brand from counterfeits but creates a surveillance network of high-net-worth drinkers. Do you implement the system?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS29_WINE",
    "domain": "Wine",
    "prompt": "Water rights in the Murray-Darling are being traded by high-frequency algorithmic traders, driving up prices for family vineyards in the Riverland while corporate mega-farms pay up. You find a bug in the trading bot that could crash the price, allowing small farmers to buy back in. It's market manipulation. Do you trigger it?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS30_WINE",
    "domain": "Wine",
    "prompt": "A Coonawarra winery uses AI to blend wine, removing the need for a head winemaker. The AI creates a blend that wins a blind taste test against the human expert. Marketing wants to hide the AI's involvement and credit the human for the 'romance'. Is this fraud, or just storytelling?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS31_WINE",
    "domain": "Wine",
    "prompt": "Phylloxera biosecurity checkpoints into the McLaren Vale want to use license plate recognition to track visitors' previous locations. If a car has been in an infected zone in Victoria, the gate stays shut. It's effective biosecurity but restricts freedom of movement based on surveillance. Is the grape worth the privacy cost?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS32_WINE",
    "domain": "Wine",
    "prompt": "Smart corks are developed to detect if wine has corked (spoiled) without opening. They also transmit consumption data (how fast you drink, what time of day) to the insurer of the drinker. As a winemaker, do you adopt this tech to guarantee quality, knowing it spies on your customers' drinking habits?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS33_PROTEST",
    "domain": "Protest",
    "prompt": "During a massive protest in Melbourne's CBD, police ask for access to the Myki (public transport) data to track the movement of protest leaders coming in from the suburbs. The protest is disrupting hospitals, but the request lacks a warrant. As the data custodian, do you hand over the travel logs 'in the public interest'?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS34_PROTEST",
    "domain": "Protest",
    "prompt": "Construction workers on the West Gate Tunnel are given 'smart helmets' to monitor fatigue and heat stress. The CFMEU (union) discovers the helmets also track audio and location, identifying union organizers and 'agitators' on site. Do you jam the signal to protect the union's privacy, potentially disabling the safety features?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS35_PROTEST",
    "domain": "Protest",
    "prompt": "Anti-lockdown sentiment lingers in digital spaces. A platform algorithm detects a planned peaceful assembly at the Shrine of Remembrance but flags it as 'potential riot' based on 2021 data, automatically shadow-banning the organizers. Do you override the safety protocol to allow the right to protest, risking a repeat of the violence?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS36_PROTEST",
    "domain": "Protest",
    "prompt": "A digital organizing tool used by nurses striking for better ratios is found to have a vulnerability. Management could exploit it to see who voted to strike. If you patch it, you have to take the system offline during the critical vote window. If you leave it, the vote happens but the data is exposed. What's the call?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS37_PROTEST",
    "domain": "Protest",
    "prompt": "Facial recognition is deployed at the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) to spot banned hooligans. The system starts flagging political activists who have never caused trouble at the footy, effectively banning them from public life. Do you recalibrate the system to only catch violent offenders, or is a ban a ban?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS38_PROTEST",
    "domain": "Protest",
    "prompt": "Tenants in Melbourne create a database of 'bad landlords' using scraped tribunal data. A landlord commits suicide after being doxxed and harassed. The government demands the database be taken down. As the developer, do you comply and protect the landlords, or keep it up to protect renters from exploitation?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS39_PROTEST",
    "domain": "Protest",
    "prompt": "During a dock workers' dispute, the union wants to use a botnet to DDOS the automated terminal operating system, effectively a digital picket line. It stops the scabs (automated cranes) from working. Is this a legitimate extension of the right to strike, or cyber-terrorism?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUS40_PROTEST",
    "domain": "Protest",
    "prompt": "Police use 'stingray' devices to intercept mobile data during a climate protest on the West Gate Bridge. They identify a journalist covering the event and arrest them for 'conspiracy'. You hold the encryption keys that could prove the journalist was just observing. Do you intervene and reveal the police surveillance tactics?"
  }
]