VentureBeat October 5, 2023
At a virtual Federal Trade Commission (FTC) roundtable yesterday, a deep lineup of creative workers and labor leaders representing artists demanded AI regulation of generative AI models and tools, saying that they need “consent, credit, control and compensation’ to protect their artistic output, brands, voices, likenesses and brands from AI model training, copycat output, AI-generated deepfakes and more.
The FTC’s roundtable, called “Creative Economy and Generative AI,” was held as a live webcast to “better understand the impact of generative artificial intelligence on creative fields.” The event was held several weeks after a closed-door event with Senate lawmakers that was criticized for focusing on featuring Big Tech CEOs including Tesla’s Elon Musk, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google’s Sundar...