At a conference last week, Federal Arts Minister Tony Burke delivered his most explicit statement yet on the Government’s position regarding copyright and artificial intelligence (AI). Responding to the Productivity Commission’s draft recommendations for a text and data mining (TDM) exception – which would allow AI developers to copy creative works without permission for training purposes – Burke was unequivocal.
‘There’s a massive decline in their work, where not only is the work sometimes now being done by a machine, but right at the moment the machine is able to emulate their personal voice,’ he said.
