The Productivity Commission is floating AI copyright exemptions – with worrying implications for Australian authors and publishers

By Alice Grundy, Visiting Fellow, School of Literature, Language and Linguistics, Australian National University

In an interim report released overnight, Harnessing data and digital technology, the Productivity Commission has floated a text and data mining exception for the Australian Copyright Act.

This would make it legal to train artificial intelligence large language models, such as ChatGPT, on copyrighted Australian work. AI training would be added to the list of “fair dealing” exceptions already existing in the Copyright Act.

Why? The Productivity Commission

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