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Before I sit down, I will quickly mention DeepSeek, a Chinese bot that is perhaps as good as any from the US—we will see—but which will certainly be a potential beneficiary of the proposed AI scraping exemption. Who cares that it does not recognise Taiwan or know what happened in Tiananmen Square? It was built for $5 million and wiped $1 trillion off the value of the US AI sector. The uncertainty that the Government claim is not an uncertainty about how copyright works; it is uncertainty about who will be the winners and losers in the race for AI. In rejecting the amendments, which could, in a matter of weeks, protect the income of the UK’s second most valuable industrial sector, the Government are pushing us into an uncertain and unsustainable future in which anyone with $5 million is to be entitled to the spoils of the UK creative industry.