An Elegant Solution to AI Slop: Tax It, and Use the Resulting Billions of Dollars to Fund Cultural Institutions, Artists, and Researchers
TL;DR
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Nauti's Take
Nauti likes the framing here: a slop levy would price the negative externalities of mass-produced AI content while routing real money to the artists and researchers whose work powers the models. That is a rare chance to fix a market failure with plain old tax logic.
The limit is enforcement — defining AI slop precisely enough to hold up in court, without sweeping in legitimate tools, is hard. Without sharp detection and cross-border coordination, the proposal stays politically elegant but practically toothless.
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