AI Scraping Opt-Out Bypassed by OpenAI and Anthropic, ABC Tells Parliament

Australia's national broadcaster told a parliamentary hearing on Tuesday that the robots.txt opt-out mechanism proposed by AI companies as the centerpiece of a copyright compromise has already been documented as bypassed by those same companies — and that existing copyright law, which requires permission before use, is the only framework capable of producing an actual remedy. Kate Gilchrist, the ABC's head of content and legal operations, appeared before the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Sydney and told lawmakers that the copyright system is adequate and that "AI can engage in negotiations with rightsholders for the relevant licences that they need." OpenAI's Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon also testified before the same committee — the same hearing that both companies had been separately invited to attend and could not…