The Australian Council of Trade Unions claims that it has reached a “breakthrough” agreement with the tech sector on a model for payment for using creative content in training AI has triggered alarm among bodies representing creative professionals.
Speaking on the sidelines of the economic reform roundtable, the secretary of the ACTU, Sally McManus, said “there was discussion with the Tech Council and ACTU about wanting to address the issue of paying creatives, journalists and academics for their data (and) their creative work that they do”.
