Australia lacks fair use exemptions in copyright law, making AI's data usage potentially illegal. This hinders investments from companies like Atlassian, Google, and Meta. They advocate for a text and data mining exemption to enable AI to train on all creative works indefinitely without licenses. Farquhar contends that AI usage isn't theft unless it directly copies creators' styles. He believes collaborative AI creations may qualify as fair use, stating large language models' benefits outweigh concerns about AI training on others' works.
All AI usage of mining or searching or going across data is probably illegal under Australian law and I think that hurts a lot of investment of these companies in Australia.
Farquhar's argument is that it is not theft of people's work unless the AI is used to copy an artist directly, such as creating a song in their style.
I do think people would say that, hey, if people are going to sit down with a digital companion, an AI song creator and they collaboratively work with an AI to create something new to the world, that's probably fair use.
The benefits of large language models outweighed the issues raised by AI training its data on other people's work for free.
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