Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out
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The tech company’s latest proposal about generative AI turns copyright law on its head, and could especially hurt smaller content creators, say experts

In its submission to the Australian government’s review of the regulatory framework around AI, Google said that copyright law should be altered to allow for generative AI systems to scrape the internet.

If my data is worth scraping then it is worth Google paying me for it.

How exactly did books.google.com turn out ?

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