Opposition Urges ChatGPT to Pay for Media Content

Australia’s Coalition party is urging the government to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) and demanding that the creators of ChatGPT and LaMDA, two language models used by Microsoft and Google in their search engines, pay for using media companies’ content to train their generative tools. The opposition supports the government’s initial efforts to regulate AI and is open to bipartisanship to manage the risks it poses across society. According to the Coalition frontbenchers David Coleman and Paul Fletcher, AI is more profound than previous technological advancements. Media giants such as Nine Entertainment and News Corp contend that they own intellectual property rights and should be paid for their content. This push comes as AI revolutionises the finance, engineering, and healthcare industries and risks having unintended consequences for society.