Digital Hollywood: The AI & Entertainment Summit
AI Slop: The Uncanny Valley of Social Media and Mediocrity
AI slop isn't simply content that feels slightly off. It's a flood — an industrial-scale deluge of generated images, videos, voices and text overwhelming every platform simultaneously, the way 400 unwatchable television shows once buried the three genuinely great ones. The volume is staggering and the signal-to-noise ratio is getting worse. But television survived its own flood and produced its golden age on the other side. The question is whether AI-generated content follows the same arc. A new generation of AI-native creators and platforms are already pushing through — synthetic performers with real audiences, AI characters building loyal communities, tools producing work no human team could have made alone. Is AI slop the junkyard or the opening act? We bring together the people living on both sides of that question right now.r.
Speakers:
Cynthia Lieberman,founder, LieberComm, Moderator
Dr. Jesse R. Bashem, Ph.D., L.P., Forensic and Complex-Trauma Specialists
Eric R. Burgess, Founder, Credtent
Cupid Hayes, Founder & CEO. Arrow Advising
Cynthia Lieberman is the founder of LieberComm, a strategic communications firm specializing in marketing, media relations, and human-AI culture strategy. A veteran entertainment executive with 20+ years of VP-level studio experience, she holds a graduate degree in Media Psychology, positioning her at the rare intersection of human behavior, emerging technology, and creative content. She is also the co-founder of CyberWise.org (“No Grownup Left Behind”), a former NAMLE board member, and an entertainment business instructor at UCLA Extension and the LA Film School.
Dr. Jesse Bashem is a licensed clinical psychologist (California; Ph.D., Wayne State University) specializing in complex interpersonal trauma. His background spans forensic and neuropsychological assessment, with published research in performance validity and deception detection, the science of telling genuine psychological signals from fabricated ones, plus a digital-biomarker study in NPJ Digital Medicine. He also builds multi-agent AI systems and reasons about them at the level of mechanism. That places him at a rare intersection: a clinician who can read both the failure pattern of a human therapeutic relationship and the architecture of the AI system attempting to simulate one.
Cupid Hayes is the Founder & CEO of Arrow Advising, a bespoke brand and strategy firm helping leaders and organizations bring clarity to identity and direction before momentum, visibility, or scale take over. She has served as VP & CBO of Missing Channel Media Group and brings more than three decades of experience as a Telly Award–winning Hollywood casting director and SAG-AFTRA actress. Known as The Guardian Angel of Brand™, Cupid is trusted by founders and executives across entertainment, media, technology, finance, and the public sector. She frequently speaks to senior audiences on the implications of AI, oversaturation, and fragmented audience attention, working upstream of marketing and execution to ensure what's being built matches what's being seen—so decisions hold and progress is sustainable.
Eric "E.R." Burgess is the CEO and founder of Credtent.org, a Public Benefit Corporation building the certification infrastructure for human-made content in the age of AI. Credtent operates three badge systems: Creative Origin for individual creators, Creative Consent for platforms licensing or distributing creative work, and Commercial Safety for AI companies seeking compliance certification. With new mandates under California AB 2013 (effective January 2026) and the EU AI Act (effective August 2026), the demand Credtent was built to meet has become a legal requirement for much of the industry. Eric came to this work through a career that ran straight through every layer of the content economy. He started as a journalist in Los Angeles before joining Disney Interactive, where he spent seven years as a creative producer and product manager. At Disney, he contributed Regis Philbin's in-game dialogue for the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire video game series, which sold over four million copies, and introduced one of the earliest implementations of downloadable content (DLC). In total, he shipped more than 30 titles. From Disney, Eric moved into enterprise software, leading the SmartOffice CRM team through SaaS-era growth and a portfolio of major financial services clients including Knights of Columbus, Ameriprise Financial Advisors, and MetLife. Following the company's acquisition by Ebix, he led the Strategic Product Team through a complex series of integrations. His next chapter was in content marketing and data. At PublishThis, he helped earn the company a spot in Forrester's first Content Marketing Wave. At a.network, he built the Earned Media Value Index, a methodology for calculating the cash value of social media engagement, drawing clients like Coca-Cola, Target, and Sprint. He co-developed Soulmates.AI alongside Dr. Galen Buckwalter, the founding scientist of eHarmony. Later, as Chief Product Officer at psyML, he led the NEON ID consent-based advertising platform and a suite of projects at the intersection of data, psychology, and public health. The MBA he completed, focused on Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation, sharpened the founding thesis for Credtent: that the content industry needed a neutral, independent certifier as urgently as the organic food industry once needed the USDA. Today Credtent works with over a dozen enterprise content partners and hundreds of individual creatives. The Writers Guild of America has reviewed and accepted Credtent's certification process, with WGA members receiving a discount. Credtent serves as a consolidator of the fragmented content certification landscape, with badges that are open and free, and certification that is paid.
