Australian PoliticsThe Albanese government is considering giving AI companies access to Australian creatives’ works by default as it pursues a compromise with US tech giants.
The proposals were revealed as senior personnel from OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, met with Labor ministers and warned that Australia’s copyright laws were preventing the company from training models locally.
The independent senator David Pocock said the compromise would throw protections for creatives and copyright holders “under the bus” in pursuit of datacentre funding.
“It would mean putting AI companies’ interests over everyday Australians, giving AI companies access to all Australians’ content, unless they opt out,” Pocock said on Tuesday.
Australian Labor Party is somewhat of a misnomer. If the dishonesty didn't prove so politically useful to them perhaps they'd be better off calling themselves "Yet Another Capital Party."
As opposed to the Liberals, who are steaming ahead with anti-liberty nationalistic shit, which is a lot fucking worse than what Labor is doing right now.
Given his consistently good takes and popularity I doubt Pocock will ever be PM.
Plus he's not in any party machine so is not so easily compromised.
Always rules for thee but not for me. Pathetic stance from Labor again.
Will they ever decide to meaningfully invest in our own people (tech, arts, science; tertiary industries) or just forever give big concessions to primary industry and international businesses that don't need them? Donald Horne was not wrong.
So the paper in question had multiple suggestions/options. I can only guess, because the article doesn't say, that there was a range from most lenient to most restrictive. Each with the foreseen pros and cons. All of this information will be used in drafting any law changes. Because this is how the Gov works...
Then the most lenient are cherry picked to be leaked to the media...
