Your photos, your words and your work: will Labor make it easier for AI companies to take them for free?

‘This is about protecting the rights of all people to keep their right to decide how their content – their photos, their websites, their written word – is used by AI companies.’ Photograph: Barry Mason/Alamy

Leaked documents from a government proposal show that the Albanese government is considering reversing the fundamental rights of Australians under copyright law.

The proposal refers to an “opt-out model”. This would give AI companies permission to train on the open internet here in Australia. Every family photo you ever posted, every small business website, every website would be fair game for AI companies unless you choose to opt out.