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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Kelly Burke

Amazon, Google and Meta are ‘pillaging culture, data and creativity’ to train AI, Australian inquiry finds

Google company headquarters in California.
The report found that creative workers were at the most imminent risk of AI severely impacting their livelihoods. Photograph: Marcio José Sánchez/AP

Tech companies Amazon, Google and Meta have been criticised by a Senate select committee inquiry for being especially vague over how they used Australian data to train their powerful artificial intelligence products.

Labor senator Tony Sheldon, the inquiry’s chair, was frustrated by the multinationals’ refusal to answer direct questions about their use of Australians’ private and personal information.

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