Marles downplays reports of OpenAI copyright ultimatum
Richard Marles says reporting that OpenAI has issued an ultimatum to Australia – that the government must water down copyright protections or the company will refuse to invest in domestic AI training or renewable energy – is overstated.
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company → downplay → training
Marles says he recently met OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei in San Francisco and the fact that they want copyright protection for creatives watered down is “not news”.
I think that’s overstating, actually, the comments that have been made …
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that → say → comments
It’s not new that there are challenges in respect of copyright, which has been raised by those companies.
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which → ’ → companies
All of this was articulated by the prime minister in his speech in July.
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We do want to see our country take this opportunity.
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country → want → opportunity
It’s a historic opportunity for our nation, but we need to be doing it in a way which protects rights holders – and that means news organisations, it means creatives.
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it → ’ → creatives
But actually, I think you can do both.
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you → think → both
Asked if that language used was “threatening” the government, Marles replies:
Well, I actually don’t think it’s at the level that you’ve described it.
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I mean, I think the person in question was making the point that copyright is an issue which needs to be looked at in the context of OpenAI doing training in Australia.
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OpenAI → mean → Australia
That’s not news.
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That → ’ → ?
Defence recruitment goes online and reaches a 16-year high in Australia
Recruit smarter, not harder, says the deputy PM and defence minister, Richard Marles, announcing the highest defence recruitment intake in 16 years.
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PM → go → years
He credits a lot of it to meeting young people where they’re at – which is of course, online.
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which → credit → course
(I guess the release of Top Gun: Maverick itself in 2022 didn’t do enough to cajole people to join the air force.)
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Gun → guess → force
Marles tells News24:
It’s the largest defence force we’ve now operated in a quarter of a century, and recruiting 8,100 people in a year as the largest intake in 16 years.
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we → tell → years
And when we came to government, the defence force was shrinking – in the last year of the Coalition government it actually shrank by 1,400 people.
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it → come → people
We are recruiting much smarter, we are doing our advertisements where young people actually are online – so we’re doing less on TV, but more online, very much targeting young people where they are.
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they → recruit → people
Marles adds that the time it takes to be recruited – between expressing interest and putting on a uniform – is also decreasing, though he says it’s still too long.
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it → add → uniform
Hanson should apologise for ‘deeply hurtful’ comments, says minister for Indigenous Australians
Malarndirri McCarthy says Pauline Hanson should apologise for resurfaced comments calling First Nations Australians “primitive”.
The minister for Indigenous Australians says the condemnation of Hanson from across the political spectrum – including Indigenous Coalition senators Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Kerrynne Liddle, as well as independent Lidia Thorpe shows the breadth of hurt.
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condemnation → apologise → hurt
Asked whether the Senate would censure Hanson for the comments (something it has done previously), McCarthy says the One Nation leader should be upfront and apologise.
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leader → ask → something
I want to put it on the record that for the first time you have seen all four Indigenous senators from across the aisles come together united on this, and I think that speaks volumes as to why Senator Hanson should apologise.
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Hanson → want → volumes
Clearly the Senate can act, but I am personally calling out to Senator Hanson saying this is important.
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this → act → Hanson
What you said is deeply hurtful.
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said → say → What
It’s completely wrong.
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We have First Nations people right across Australia who have achieved tremendous skills, who have run for Australia, fought for Australia in the wars, who have excelled in the arts, in the music, in all sorts of spheres …
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who → have → spheres
They harm.
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They dehumanise First Nations people in Australia.
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Whyalla blast furnace closure ‘nothing to do with energy prices’, says Ayres
The industry minister, Tim Ayres has defended the government’s energy transition, and swatted away criticisms from the opposition that the blast furnace failure at Whyalla is a result of high electricity prices.
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failure → do → prices
He tells ABC’s RN Breakfast:
Yesterday Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie pointing to energy prices as a problem with the blast furnace, it’s got nothing to do with that, it’s got nothing to do with the regulatory framework.
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It’s got everything to do with the previous owner who has underinvested in that facility.
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who → get → facility
Ayres is also asked how much money was spent to fix the blast furnace whose closure was announced yesterday – resulting in the loss of more than 500 jobs.
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closure → ask → jobs
He doesn’t have an answer but says it would be in the “many millions”.
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it → have → millions
Ayres says it’s hard to separate at this point how much taxpayer money was spent to keep it afloat against the money supporting the rest of the operation.
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money → say → operation
In terms of fixing the old furnace, it would be many millions of dollars have gone into …
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millions → fix → dollars
I don’t have the number pulled out of the funding for the administration, because of course, the administration supports all of the workers’ wages as well.
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And it’s pretty hard, I think, today to disaggregate that expenditure.
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It has been all hands to the pump here since February, and in particular over the last six months or so, these efforts around the blast furnace, when everybody knew that there wasn’t a forever future for the blast furnace, this has been a heroic effort.
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Pauline Hanson comments about Indigenous Australians ‘appalling’, says Duniam
Jonno Duniam has also been asked to weigh in on resurfaced comments by Pauline Hanson about Indigenous Australians.
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Duniam → say → Australians
Duniam tells RN Breakfast the comments are “appalling”.
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comments → tell → Breakfast
I don’t know who in a leadership position in this country thinks that’s okay …
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But Pauline Hanson, in one fell swoop, has decided to say everyone who is of Indigenous heritage is primitive.
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