Anthropic Urges Australia to Allow AI Training on Copyrighted Works Through Opt-Out System
Summary
Anthropic now urges Australia to let AI firms train on copyrighted works unless rightsholders opt out, while ABC and SBS demand that AI companies face media-style copyright, defamation and privacy rules and warn robots.txt exclusions are easily bypassed.
Key Points
- Anthropic urges the Albanese government to allow AI training on Australian copyrighted works through a conditional opt-out system after accepting a blanket copyright exemption is unavailable.
- The ABC and SBS urge lawmakers to subject AI firms to media-style copyright, defamation and privacy rules and include them in the news bargaining incentive.
- SBS warns robots.txt-based "do not crawl" opt-outs are routinely bypassed and shift the burden of monitoring AI bots onto rightsholders.