Google tells government it should be allowed to scrape whatever it wants to train AI

Google told a government review of Australia's Artificial Intelligence Ethics Framework that it wants "copyright systems that enable appropriate and fair use of copyrighted content to enable the training of AI models in Australia on a broad and diverse range of data, while supporting workable opt-outs for entities that prefer their data not to be trained in using AI systems". Basically, let us harvest whatever we want for our gain for free and if someone wants to opt-out, they can just list it in the site's robots.txt (which can be easily ignored). How about Google only scrape sites that opt-in, along with some sort of reimbursement for the privilege of using my hard work for your harebrained AI schemes? I'm personally not against using my stuff for training AI, it's the lack of reimburse that shits me. You're gonna make $50b/yr off this data and my data consists of 0.000001% of it? Give me $500/yr or fuck off.


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