The Rise of Agentic AI and the Fall of the Creator Middle Class

In this episode of The Daily Creator, Eric Farber, former entertainment lawyer and founder of Creators’ Legal, explores a critical moment in the intersection of creativity, technology, and law: the rise of Agentic AI. As artificial intelligence evolves from passive tools to autonomous agents capable of generating and executing creative strategies, a new threat emerges — one that could dismantle the very foundation of the creator economy. 

Eric unpacks what makes Agentic AI fundamentally different from previous generations of AI and why its growing influence could disproportionately harm the creative middle class — the millions of independent creators making a living through platforms like Substack, YouTube, and Patreon. 

He dives into the philosophical, structural, and economic risks of AI systems trained on human-generated content yet designed to replace the humans who created it — all without attribution or compensation. From marketing and music to software and storytelling, Eric warns of a future where infinite content is produced without authorship, artistry, or soul. 

This is not a call to panic — it's a call to design. Eric proposes tangible legal, ethical, and cultural frameworks to preserve human creativity in an AI-powered world. Because AI can assist, but it cannot witness. It can mimic, but it cannot transform. 

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