The FTC recently hosted a roundtable discussion with representatives from various creative industries to discuss the opportunities and challenges posed by generative AI. Concerns were raised about AI models being trained on artists' original work without their consent and the potential for existing copyright law to provide some regulatory protection. FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter emphasized the importance of human input in art and the inability of AI to replace human creativity.
Key takeaways:
- Digital rights organization Fight for the Future and music industry labor group United Musicians and Allied Workers have launched a campaign, #AIdayofaction, urging Congress to prevent corporations from copyrighting music and other art created with AI.
- The campaign aims to ensure that AI tools are used to benefit individual artists and not just large corporations, and to keep humans involved in the creative process.
- There are growing concerns across creative industries about the potential for AI to disempower creators and artists, with their work being used to train AI models without their control or consent.
- The FTC is actively engaging with these concerns, with FTC Chair Lina Khan stating that generative AI poses unique opportunities and challenges to creative industries.