Compensating creators is a ‘business choice’: Maincode chief


Trish Everingham
Contributor

AI firms are making a business decision not to pay creators when their work is used to train large language models, according to Maincode chief executive Dave Lemphers, who on Tuesday asserted there is “no technical barrier” to compensating artists.

Mr Lemphers, an entrepreneur developing Australia’s answer to OpenAI, told a Senate inquiry that the technology to trace and tag training data already exists.

He likened it to the cataloguing …

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