Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. TOTOTO Anthropic is asking ABC to share decades of radio and TV content in exchange for compensation to train the global AI giant’s big language models, the broadcaster’s boss has revealed. Hugh Marks said the tech
Anthropic is asking ABC to share decades of radio and TV content in exchange for compensation to train the global AI giant’s big language models, the broadcaster’s boss has revealed.
Hugh Marks said the tech giant wants to access ABC archives to train its Claude AI chatbot, but that media companies like the public broadcaster are in a disproportionate negotiating position during a panel session focused on the impact of artificial intelligence on media companies with other executives on Tuesday night.
“One of the interesting things for us in that discussion is that they want access to our audio content,” Marks said when asked by journalist and radio host Hamish Macdonald about the ABC’s ongoing negotiations over a commercial deal with Anthropic.
“They want access to the work that you and your colleagues are doing now and have been doing for generations. I think that’s the way information is presented, so audio content is something they really want.”
Seeking access to ABC news content is a “given,” Marks said, as tech giants like Anthropic, Microsoft and OpenAI want legitimacy for the information presented to those using their chatbots.
“Increasingly, as the world moves toward video, they also want video content,” Marks added.
Anthropic has been contacted for comment.
During the panel discussion, which included News Corp’s local chief executive Michael Miller, Stanton, SBS chief executive Jane Palfreyman and Reuters editor-in-chief Alessandra Galloni, executives argued for the need for financial compensation for trustworthy news content and the reputation of their mastheads developed over decades.
“We are in a disproportionate negotiating position,” Marks said.
“We have these global companies that have trillion-dollar investment balances that have power and seem to have convinced some governments around the world that for some reason they should be able to take intellectual property, where maybe they can’t take water or land or goods or other things. But for some reason they seem to think that intellectual property is a free thing that they can tax.”
The panel session was held as part of a new format for the ABC’s Andrew Olle media conference, delivered earlier in the evening by Galloni, who called for greater collaboration between Australian media companies as the adoption of AI increasingly redefines the role media plays in society.
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