Copyright Licensing NZ chief executive Sam Irvine.

The government is pushing for much more AI in the public service at a "pivotal" time for scores of lawsuits against AI globally.

Experts foresee a threat to the government's plans.

The free mining of copyrighted material has been used to train many AI large-language models.

The latest to push back are five big US publishers and bestselling author of Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow, against Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg.