Open AI breaks ranks with Tech Council of Australia over heated copyright issue

Chief global affairs officer of company behind ChatGPT tells Sydney audience we are going to be in Australia, one way or the other'

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Open AI has broken ranks with the Tech Council of Australia over copyright restrictions, declaring that its artificial intelligence models are going to be in Australia, one way or the other".

Chris Lehane, the chief global affairs officer of the artificial intelligence company responsible for ChatGPT, made a keynote appearance at SXSW Sydney on Friday, where he covered the geopolitics of AI, Australia's tech future - and the global debate around using copyrighted material to train large language models.