Australian media demands Meta and AI firms pay for using news content
• Australian media companies could seek compensation from Meta for using online news content to train AI models without permission • There are calls to designate Meta under the news media bargaining code to force them to negotiate payments with news publishers • Companies like OpenAI have also been accused of scraping millions of articles without permission to train AI chatbots • Experts see parallels between the bargaining code and the AI issue, suggesting the code could facilitate payments • While valuable for AI to be trained on news, there are disputes around copyright rules and whether exceptions or licenses are needed