Alice Taylor, Director, BBC Studios' new AI Creative Lab, describes a “strong, cautious enthusiasm” among production teams for the initiative.
Taylor has a straightforward view of what she does not want the BBC Studios AI Creative Lab to produce: more AI “slop”.
“Certainly, from the creative community, I think fully generated, unsupervised [content] is what we would call slop. Nobody’s into that game,” says Taylor, who joined BBC Studios at the end of last year to lead its newly established AI Creative Lab.
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