{"id":899895,"date":"2026-09-21T09:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899895\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T09:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:02:12","slug":"malcolm-turnbull-warns-australia-deluding-itself-on-ai-copyright-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899895\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm Turnbull warns Australia \u2018deluding\u2019 itself on AI copyright protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says the country is \u201cdeluding\u201d itself into thinking strict local copyright laws will protect creators, pointing out that Australian material can already be accessed by offshore frontier artificial intelligence companies to train their models.<\/p>\n<p>The comments come as the Albanese government weighs changes to copyright laws to attract OpenAI and Anthropic to train their frontier AI models locally. Scrapping the current prohibition on scraping of copyrighted creative content to train models without permission has been described as a \u201ccritical issue\u201d to unlock AI investment in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says the country is \u201cdeluding\u201d itself into thinking strict local copyright laws will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-899895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}