Labor has ruled out changing copyright laws to give tech giants free rein to train artificial intelligence models on creative works, after the proposition was met with widespread backlash from artists.

The government's copyright and AI reference group will meet early this week to examine whether the laws need to be refreshed, but Attorney-General Michelle Rowland stressed that any changes would not include a carve-out for developers to train their systems on Australian works.

Such an exemption has been called for by parts of the tech sector and floated by the Productivity Commission in their interim report into harnessing data and digital technology, which estimated that AI could deliver a $116 billion boost to the economy over a decade.

The proposal was immediately slammed by the creat

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