Netflix has thoughts on AI and regulation, Larry Tanz, vp of content for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Netflix, told the Enders TMT Leaders Live conference in London on Thursday.
Highlighting the streamer’s investment in the British film and TV industry, Tanz said that Netflix has filmed in 225-plus cities and towns across the U.K. since 2016. “We’re additive to that local industry… no black box.”
Concluded Tanz: “We do not accept the argument that Netflix is simply passing through. We are part of the industry.”
The rise of user-, and increasingly AI-generated, programming and possible regulations focused around AI and investment themes pose potential risks, he argued, suggesting that regulation may one day “dictate not just how much we invest but what we make.”
Netflix “would be discouraged from taking risks on new and emerging voices in the case of “one-size-fits-all regulation,” Tanz warned. That could funnel all opportunities to “big media groups,” he argued. “Let’s not sleepwalk” into such a future, he concluded.
