Labor MP Ed Husic has warned that any moves to water down copyright law to benefit artificial intelligence companies would be "going against the ethos" of the Labor party and undermine the principle of "a fair day's pay for a fair day's work."
Husic calls for strong AI rules
Husic, who has long advocated for a more interventionist approach on AI policy, said big firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic should not be left to self-regulate. He argued that the federal government should be setting strong rules to protect Australian intellectual property.
His comments come ahead of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's highly anticipated speech in Sydney on guardrails for AI, datacentres and Australian intellectual property.
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Dolphin deaths in South Australia
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Today in Focus podcast
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Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey in IMAX 1570
Cinephiles from around the world are traveling to Australia to see Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey in one of the few surviving cinemas capable of screening it in the filmmaker's preferred format. Nolan has long championed IMAX 1570 film, the highest-resolution film format in existence. The IMAX in Melbourne is the only cinema in the southern hemisphere with a 1570 reel of The Odyssey.
