Everything Australians put online could be scraped for AI under proposed new rules. How will you be affected?
TL;DR
The Albanese government is considering reforms that give US big tech unrestricted access to Australian content Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast AI companies could get unrestricted access to everything Australians create online by default under sweeping reforms being considered by the Albanese government. Your posts and online presence are up for grabs and Labor is facing pressure from big tech to make that legal. Continue reading...
Nauti's Take
For AI companies this would be an advantage: more training data and legal certainty could improve models with local context. The risk sits with creators and users whose content would be used without consent or payment.
Anyone publishing in Australia should follow this debate, and Europe should watch too, because similar opt-out questions remain open there.
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