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Author Anna Funder warns Australia against weakening copyright for AI training

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Author Anna Funder expresses concern that US tech companies are pushing for Australian copyright laws to be weakened, potentially allowing AI models to be trained on creative works without fair compensation. She argues that such a move would undermine the fundamental fairness of Australia's legal system and harm creators. Funder's comments were made during a visit to Canberra with other authors. AI

IMPACT Could shape AI policy and copyright law, impacting how AI models are trained on creative works.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece by a named credible voice discussing AI policy implications.

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Author Anna Funder warns Australia against weakening copyright for AI training

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    🤖 Authors like me must have faith that Australia, where fairness is fundamental, won’t gut our copyright for big tech | Anna Funder US companies hoping to make

    🤖 Authors like me must have faith that Australia, where fairness is fundamental, won’t gut our copyright for big tech | Anna Funder US companies hoping to make fortunes from AI want the creative product of our country to be available to them for free, or for peanuts. Words fail m…

    LINKS web.archive.org/…/authors-writers-copyrig… web.archive.org

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