An Elegant Solution to AI Slop: Tax It, and Use the Resulting Billions of Dollars to Fund Cultural Institutions, Artists, and Researchers

Technologist Mike Pepi proposed a small annual tax on companies that host or provide generative AI content.

He said the revenue could support a public fund for cultural institutions, artists, and researchers.

The proposal aims to rebalance value extraction from the creative and academic communities used to train AI models.

It also seeks to counter the spread of low-quality AI-generated content, sometimes called “AI slop.”