CANBERRA - The Australian government has ruled out granting technology companies an exemption from copyright laws to train artificial intelligence (AI) models.

Australia's Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said in a statement on Sunday night that any move by the government to update existing copyright laws will not include an exemption for developers to mine creative works for the purpose of training AI language learning models.

"There are no plans to weaken copyright protections when it comes to AI," she said.

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Rowland told Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) radio on Monday that the decision would ensure that Australian creatives are fairly remunerated for their work.

It comes after the Productivity Commission (PC), the government's independent advisory body on economic, social and environmental issues, warned in an interim report published in August that strictly regulating AI would inhibit Australia's economic growth.

The PC report, which was commissioned by Treasurer Jim Chalmers, found that AI could deliver a 116-billion-Australian-dollar (75.8-billion-US-dollar) boost to the national economy over the next decade, and suggested granting a copyright exemption.

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Rowland said that the government's copyright and AI reference group would meet over the next two days to discuss other options for response to the legal challenges posed by AI.