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Unions and Australian tech giants have agreed to work on a model to compensate musicians, authors and possibly media outlets for the content used to feed artificial intelligence tools.
The in-principle undertaking, discussed at the government’s economic roundtable, seemed impossible a fortnight ago when a debate blew up over the prospect of large language models, such as ChatGPT, learning from articles, songs and art without compensating creators.
Cutting-edge AI tools “learn” from digital content and then allow users to recreate the styles of artists, musicians and authors, sometimes yielding almost identical final results to copyrighted works, and in a fraction of the time. Workers and unions fear the results would devalue creative content.
Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar was one of the top advocates in favour of AI Hoovering up content, declaring last month that copyright exemptions “could unlock billions of dollars of foreign investment”.
