This may come as a surprise, but Marc Andreessen - co-founder of mega-venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and the long-time wealthy - is very worried about the creator economy.。

To be clear, he's not worried about "creatives," artists who have worked hard for years in low-wage industries hoping to one day turn their hard work, talent and creative inspiration into something others care about.。No, no.。Anderson worries about the creators who "generate" AI software models - soulless programs that take a lot of content from the Internet (including a lot of creative work by the aforementioned artists) and turn it into garbage that people like Anderson can generate through algorithms。monetization。

Yeah, Mark's really worried about these people。

The reason he seems concerned about this otherwise dominant population is that the U.S. Copyright Office is currently considering new regulations related to the misuse of copyrighted material by artificial intelligence developers to train models, and is receiving public comments on the issue.。

On Tuesday, the FTC submitted some relatively modest views on the possible need to respect existing copyright laws when applying to these emerging language models.。Because the FTC's mission is to protect consumers, it believes the use of AI in the creative industries could "impact openness and openness."。Fair competition。More specifically, the agency said it was concerned about "liability issues surrounding the development or deployment of generative AI," and was investigating how the "liability principle [sho] uld] applies to harm caused by AI tools trained in creative work that are used to generate new content.。"