The Albanese government is considering reforms that give US big tech unrestricted access to Australian content.
AI companies could get unrestricted access to everything Australians create online by default under 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.
Anyone who didn’t want their content to be scraped would have to digitally protect their content, such as with a password or paywall, potentially restricting their online audience.
If you run the website that hosts your content, you might be able to add a robots.txt file Harrison said.
Claire Pullen, group chief executive of the Australian Writers’ Guild, says creators are already losing business to AI as it generates imitations, or sometimes identical regurgitations, of their work.
In one option, AI companies would gain the right to access and train models on any unprotected online material as long as they made deals with enough businesses.
The UK government rejected the types of reforms now being considered in Australia after artists including Elton John and Paul McCartney fought to prevent their work ending up in AI models.
In the US, Anthropic is defending a multibillion-dollar lawsuit over alleged theft of “tens of thousands” of songs and spent US$1.5bn settling a case over its use of 482,000 books from a pirated database.
Camilleri said artists or their publishers could use geo-blocking technology to cut off Australian viewers, readers and listeners if they were worried about AI access.