Ben Affleck's Thoughts On AI In The Movie Industry Go Viral
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The Oscar-winning screenwriter and director, who predicted the rise of streaming services and digital-only sales in 2003, said “AI is a craftsman” — not an artist.
Ben Affleck isn’t that worried about artificial intelligence, or AI, taking over his industry.
The “Argo” director recently joined a panel at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha 2024 investor summit, where moderator David Faber asked how close we really are to a streaming service like Netflix being able to produce entirely new “James Bond” films out of thin air.
“A, that’s not possible now,” replied Affleck. “B, will it be possible in the future? Highly unlikely. C, movies will be one of the last things, if everything gets replaced, to be replaced by AI. AI can write you excellent imitative verse that sounds Elizabethan — it cannot write you Shakespeare.”
Countless actors have expressed burgeoning concern over the technology, and thousands joined the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes of 2023 to demand regulations on the use of AI. However, Affleck says the technology won’t be able to match the “taste” of real people hashing out scenes on set “for a meaningful period of time.”
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