How productive is the Productivity Commission? An organisation that has failed to make a dint in the decades-long decline in productivity, it is no longer fit for purpose. It has demonstrated decades of bias against Australia’s creative industries, and its most recent proposal to further enrich big tech monopolies by permitting them to rip off low-paid authors and illustrators establishes a new low.
Specifically, the commission’s recent report, Harnessing Data and Digital Technology, argues for a legal exemption to copyright laws that would allow tech companies to use the work of authors and other creatives to train their AI models without permission or payment.
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