Having explicitly rejected any possible text and data mining exemption to copyright law, is the Australian government about to give away our most valuable cultural and natural assets?

Last week a whistleblower claimed that high-level plans are afoot to give AI developers some sort of copyright “carve-out”, allowing them to use Australian music, journalism, literature and art to train their commercial products without consent or compensation. The whistleblower also claimed that “billions of dollars of data centre investment” was on the table, with “hundreds of millions of dollars annually for a creative fund” as a sweetener.

If true, this abrupt U-turn on safeguarding against text and data mining would end careers, diminish Australian culture, and exacerbate some of the most perilous crises facing this continent. 

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