Josh Taylor

I mean the numbers don't bear that out for the last FY but we shall see for next.

So before the changes

Tax relief and Carmen Sandiego: Australia’s once-dismissed video game industry is finally getting a leg-up Government rebates and grants have finally put the country back on the map for the quick-moving field of professional game development

Did a story on the state of the game industry in Australia. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

We must refuse to allow the U.S. government and the media to normalize mass censorship in response to a manufactured moral panic about technology and social media.

"BELL CJ: Ms Costaras, are you, and I don't mean this critically, I just want to inquire, are you reading from some script or some slides prepared by artificial intelligence? RESPONDENT: Yes, your Honour, I did get the help of AI." The respondent later indicated that she had "uploaded all the documentation" 4. Some of the respondent's oral submissions were intelligible and engaged with the matters raised on the appeal. Many of them, however, did not. It is useful to give some examples to highlight the serious shortcomings of the use of Generative Al at least by a person who is not capable of either checking the accuracy or veracity or relevance of what has been generated. Again, I emphasise that in setting out the following passages, I am not being personally critical of the respondent who was doing her best to represent herself.

This judgment went more in depth about self-represented litigants using AI than I've seen in other cases before. jade.io/article/1146...

It attracts individualists who see no value in the work of others or community, so I get it

I resisted posting my opinion piece on the AI copyright thing because I knew it'd just get the worst comments.

It was so upsetting but important

Borg analogy also useful in this case.

Something I first heard about from Star Trek Voyager as a kid.

I realised yesterday I could have inserted a scorpion and the frog analogy about the relationship between media and tech platforms but I think that analogy is fairly overused now... Apt though.

He really wanted to write only they were covering the case but my colleague Daisy has been reporting it too

It's a confused line of thinking but he goes on to list the starvation methods used by allied forces and argues that the number of deaths is paltry compared to the rest of the war. I am not sure of his point.

Henry Ergas

Having been to Hiroshima...the takeaway from that is not that it was something necessary to do, but something that should never be done again.

• THE AUSTRALIAN* No protesters streamed across Sydney's Harbour Bridge in the months leading up to the atomic bombing, 80 years ago this week, of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There was undoubtedly a passionate desire to end the Pacific War, which had cost so many lives and inflicted so much suffering. But the peace had to be a peace worth having: a peace that was not just a cessation of hostilities but the road to a better future.

Yeesh.

JOURNALIST: Good morning. Just a question on AI. Will your Government ensure that AI giants don’t mine copyright of the content without having to compensate artists and creators? PRIME MINISTER: I have seen some of the comments that are there. My Government's a government that supports the arts. I think across the board, AI is obviously a complex issue, it's something that is an emerging technology, something that will change the way that we live and work, and engage with each other. AI has the potential for massive productivity benefits. I saw - I'm not sure what outlet you're from - but I saw a report just last night about healthcare and AI that showed a doctor talking about how positive it has been for him, on 7.30 last night on the ABC. We need to engage in discourse about how we make sure that we maximise the benefits but minimise any of the other factors that need to be considered. We as a society will work that through. It's good there's debate about it, but copyright and intellectual property is important. JOURNALIST: Just another question on AI if that's OK? PRIME MINISTER: Sure. JOURNALIST: Jim Chalmers said Labor had no plans to water down copyright laws. The Government has said before it had no plans to do something and then has done it. Are you able to guarantee the creatives of Australia that you won't water down copyright laws? PRIME MINISTER: Jim Chalmers answered the question.

PM was asked about the AI copyright thing today.

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

Our latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tech support/social media moderator should not be in the job description though if they were doing things properly.

Exclusive: Pro-Israel ABC ‘whistleblower’ volunteered for far-right Advance Australia The Australian newspaper published an interview with a former staff member alleging the ABC was bias against Israel. He once volunteered for right-wing lobby group Advance Australia during a by-electi...

The Weekend Australian's 'exclusive' about ABC having an 'anti-Israel bias' relied on a former ABC staff member.

What The Australian and Cameron Stewart didn't reveal, is he had volunteered for Advance Australia while working at the public broadcaster.

www.lamestream.com.au/exclusive-pr...

Similar reasons claimed by Meta to them, that's about it.

Thanks David!

And just like that, after my story goes up, Meta restores her account.

‘No clear explanation’: businesses reliant on Meta struggle in the wake of wrongful suspensions Bans aren’t new, but since July many Meta users have reported accounts being suspended erroneously for breaching community standards

I get emails about once every two weeks from people saying Meta wrongly suspended their accounts. In the past month I've received way more.

Meta claims there's no change but it's weird www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia’s potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands | Josh Taylor The Productivity Commission appears to have bought into tech companies’ brazen arguments – and caught the Australian government off-guard

“Tech companies have devalued the work of creative industries for years. The latest iteration of this is their insistence the AI models they plan to make lots of money from need the labour of all of human creation for free in perpetuity.” - @joshtaylor.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Andrew Bragg maybe

Australia’s potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands | Josh Taylor The Productivity Commission appears to have bought into tech companies’ brazen arguments – and caught the Australian government off-guard

I expanded on these thoughts. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

which Australian politician will do this first (and how long until it goes MechaHitler)

‘Double standards': Confidential DFAT documents warn inaction on Gaza will cost Australia credibility 'Allowing the crisis in Gaza to deepen with apparent impunity undermines our messaging about the rule of law — our adversaries use this to accuse us of double standards.'

New by me for @crikey.com.au:

‘Double standards’: Confidential DFAT documents warn inaction on Gaza will cost Australia credibility

www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/06/d...

It's interesting to me that the social media ban is framed by the government as "world leading" whereas not giving many of the same companies what they want to do in AI is framed as us falling behind.