Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it

Interim report on digital economy also mulls changes to privacy rules and copyright collections to help harness AI's benefits

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The Productivity Commission is examining whether technology firms should be exempted from copyright rules that stop companies from mining text and data to train artificial intelligence models.

The PC, in its interim report into harnessing data and the digital economy", used copyright as a case study for how Australia's existing regulatory framework could be adapted to manage the risks of artificial intelligence.