Sunny Hostin faced pushback from her fellow co-hosts on The View after defending her decision to license her name and likeness to AI company Fountain 0, describing generative AI as a "new art form" that could help break down barriers facing Black and Brown creators in Hollywood. Hostin argued that after six years of failing to get her book trilogy adapted for screen, AI offers a way to bypass industry "gatekeeping" and get diverse stories made without relying on traditional studio approval, though the exchange exposed a sharp divide with colleagues over the technology's impact on jobs and creative ownership.

Co-hosts Joy Behar and Alyssa Farah Griffin challenged Hostin directly, warning that AI risks displacing real actors — particularly Black and Brown performers — and that it draws on existing actors' intellectual property without compensating them through residuals. Hostin countered that studios, not AI, are responsible for shutting out diverse projects, while acknowledging she had considered the ethical implications before signing her likeness away. Behar rejected this, suggesting studios should instead be compelled to make such projects rather than use AI as a substitute, but Hostin maintained that AI represents an unstoppable and ultimately beneficial shift, calling it "a different art form" rather than a threat to the arts.