“AI can write you excellent imitative verse that sounds Elizabethan.
It cannot write you Shakespeare.”
Ben Affleckis quieting the doomsayers who believe that AI is years away from destroying the film industry.
Ben Affleck in 2023.Gary Miller/WireImage
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“AI can write you excellent imitative verse that sounds Elizabethan.
It cannot write you Shakespeare,” Affleck said.
Emma D’Arcy’s Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen on ‘House of the Dragon’.MAX
“AI is a craftsman at best.
“Theyre just cross-pollinating things that exist.
Nothing new is created.
He added, “Craftsman is knowing how to work.
Art is knowing when to stop.
“Because what cost a lot of money is now gonna cost a lot less.
It is gonna hammer that space and it already is.”
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He continued, “But it’s not gonna replace human beings making films.
“This technology wants to take your instrument.
Wearethe instruments as film actors,” Cage said at the Newport Beach Film Festival in October.
Protect your instrument.”
The conversation surrounding AI has also extended well beyond just actors.
Last year,Tim Burtonjoined a chorus of directorscondemning the technology being usedto recreate their signature style.
Burton likened the practice to watching “a robot taking [his] humanity.”
Watch Affleck address the subject in the clip above.
