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Tracey Spicer: Watering down Australia’s AI copyright laws would sacrifice writers’ livelihoods to ‘brogrammers’

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Davriellelouna@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨australia@aussie.zone⁩

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/12/australia-ai-weakening-copyright-act-laws-productivity-commission

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  • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I get the feeling you guys link me to too many articles at the guardian

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    US companies are pinching Australian content, using it to train their models, then selling it back to us. It’s an extractive industry: neocolonialism, writ large.

    Not necessarily US companies, Chinese and European as well, in fact anyone who doesn’t want to end up once again enslaved to a US tech monopoly (computer hardware, smartphones, operating systems, programs/office suites, clouds, data centres etc) is really not wanting to be left behind yet again.

    They’re also not really selling you back your own words are they? It’s like putting everything into a blender and what comes out works well, that’s the magic of AI

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  • DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think she has a good point, but this is a poorly written piece. She dilutes the issue of scraping content without paying for it, with the quality of ChatGPT’s output. And she doesn’t seem to know what a “brogrammer” is. It’s not just anyone who works in silicon valley. It’s a jock who would have previously gone into finance, but now chooses tech because it’s the hot thing. Who does she think is a brogrammer? Sama? Ilya? GB? Karpathy?

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