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Lucinda Garbutt-Young and Will Nicholas

AI companies want to bypass copyright laws for content

AI development couldn't happen if permission was needed from everyone, Google's Roxanne Carter said. (Sarah Wilson/AAP PHOTOS)

America's largest artificial intelligence companies have been upfront about their desire to use Australian creative content for the training of models without having to abide by copyright rules.

Major tech companies were using the US as their base for training AI because copyright was less regulated and less complex than Australia, a government inquiry was told on Tuesday.

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