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Will America Learn to Love A.I. Slop?

The hand-wringing around artificial intelligence is typically focused on the ways it will disrupt content production, but far less attention has been paid to how media platforms will decide to guardrail the technology. In this incisive conversation, Julia Alexander and Ian Krietzberg join Eriq Gardner to break down the legal considerations facing Hollywood, publishing, and the music industry.

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Part of the reason why Spotify have been reluctant to prohibit—or even label—A.I. music is that, like other streamers and publishers, they’re currently testing audience limits: Will users protest? What about artists like Taylor Swift? Photo: Long Wei/VCG/Getty Images
Eriq Gardner
Ian Krietzberg
Julia Alexander
August 12, 2025

So much of the agitation surrounding A.I. and entertainment these days is fixated on content production—how the technology is being used to generate images, music, videos, etcetera—and the creative class that it threatens to disrupt or displace. Far less attention has been paid to the media platforms— Disney, Netflix, and Spotify, sure, but also YouTube, and TikTok—that will ultimately decide what guardrails to place around the technology.