Anthropic pushes for opt-out model for Australian content as ABC warns of ‘cannibalisation’ of news

Anthropic proposed an opt-out model allowing technology companies to train AI systems on Australian copyrighted material. Australian public broadcasters opposed the plan, warning that uncompensated scraping harms the financial stability of newsrooms. The clash highlights growing pressure to apply copyright, defamation, and media bargaining rules to generative AI.

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