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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Daisy Dumas

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

The ChatGPT logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen with Open AI logo in the background
Australia’s Productivity Commission is examining whether technology firms should be exempt from copyright rules that stop companies mining text and data to train AI models. Photograph: Algi Febri Sugita/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

OpenAI 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.

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