Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out, turning copyright law on its head

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Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out
theguardian.com

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.

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Books will start needing to add a robots.txt page to the back of the book

Which will be ignored by search engines, as is tradition?