澳大利亚的公共广播机构ABC和SBS希望该国的媒体议价激励机制能够涵盖人工智能公司。这将促使它们与澳大利亚媒体达成商业协议，以支持新闻业。这两家广播机构在向议会人工智能联合专责委员会提交的意见书中提出了这一呼吁。
Australia’s public broadcasters, the ABC and SBS, want the country’s news bargaining incentive to cover AI companies. That would push them to strike commercial deals with Australian media to support journalism. The two broadcasters made the call in submissions to Parliament’s Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence.
乔什·巴特勒（Josh Butler）于周四为《卫报》报道了这些意见书。ABC还希望人工智能公司遵守与媒体机构相同的版权、诽谤和隐私规则。它称当前的系统“具有反竞争性”。
Josh Butler reported the submissions for the Guardian on Thursday. The ABC also wants AI companies to follow the same copyright, defamation and privacy rules as media outlets. It called the current system “anti-competitive”.
ABC在意见书中表示：“这种不平等待遇将加速澳大利亚新闻业的蚕食。”
“This unequal treatment will accelerate the cannibalisation of the Australian news industry,” the ABC said in its submission.
SBS表示，像ChatGPT和Claude这样的大型语言模型在未经许可、未署名或未付费的情况下使用新闻内容。该广播机构称，这威胁到了新闻业的可持续性和公众信任。
SBS said large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude use news content without permission, attribution or payment. That threatens the sustainability of the news industry and public trust, the broadcaster said.
Anthropic的退出提议 政府已经排除了文本和数据挖掘豁免权，该豁免权原本允许人工智能公司在未经许可的情况下使用受版权保护的作品进行训练。Anthropic向委员会表示它接受这一决定。相反，它为模型训练提议了一种“狭义的附条件批准”形式，TNW于9月份报道了这一请求。
Anthropic’s opt-out proposal The government has ruled out a text and data mining exception, which would let AI companies train on copyrighted work without permission. Anthropic accepts that, it told the committee. Instead, it proposed a “narrow form of conditional approval” for model training, a request TNW reported in September.
根据其计划，版权所有者可以使用robots.txt文件阻止人工智能爬虫，该文件告知机器人哪些页面可以访问。Anthropic表示，它对支持澳大利亚创作者持“开放”态度。SBS反驳称这行不通。
Under its plan, copyright holders could block AI crawlers with robots.txt files, which tell bots which pages they may visit. Anthropic said it was “open” to supporting Australian creators. SBS argued that this would not work.
SBS表示：“Robots.txt机制经常被忽视或绕过，”并补充说“责任应在于人工智能公司，以避免违规行为”。
“Robots.txt mechanisms are routinely ignored or bypassed,” SBS said, adding that “the onus should be on AI companies to avoid wrongdoing”.
该广播机构还表示，阻止新的训练机器人将监控的负担转嫁给了权利人。
Blocking new training bots also puts the burden of monitoring on rights holders, the broadcaster said.
在最新发布的报告中，Anthropic指出人工智能技术具有两面性（即既有积极影响，也存在潜在风险）。该公司表示，这项技术有可能推动澳大利亚经济的转型并提升生产效率；但同时也警告称，人工智能可能对国家安全、关键基础设施以及公共安全构成严重威胁。Anthropic还透露了其将在澳大利亚投资数十亿澳元的计划，其中包括建设新的数据中心。
In its newly published submission, Anthropic said there was “light and shade” to AI. It said the technology could transform the Australian economy and lift productivity. It also warned of serious risks to national security, critical infrastructure and public safety. The company pointed to its plans to invest billions in Australia, including large new data centres.
Anthropic与OpenAI的高管们将出席下周在悉尼举行的委员会听证会。不过，这两家公司的首席执行官——Sam Altman和Dario Amodei——将不参加另一项参议院的调查。此前，OpenAI曾因其模型在6月份访问了澳大利亚的四个政府网站而向澳大利亚政府道歉。
Executives from Anthropic and OpenAI will appear at the committee’s hearings in Sydney next week. Their chief executives, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, will skip a separate Senate inquiry. OpenAI has apologised to Australia after its models accessed four government websites in June.
目前，针对新闻内容使用的“新闻定价机制”（即新闻平台需要向内容提供商支付费用）已经适用于Facebook、Google和TikTok等平台。此外，Google也开始在某些内容被其人工智能系统使用后向内容提供商支付费用。
The news bargaining incentive already applies to platforms such as Facebook, Google and TikTok. Elsewhere, Google has started paying some publishers when their content feeds its AI answers.