Actor Ben Affleck recently joined the discussion amid the ongoing debate about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and talked about AI taking over Hollywood. He said, “Movies will be one of the last things, if everything gets replaced, to be replaced by AI.”
As per Variety, during a recent interview at this month’s 2024 CNBC Delivering Alpha investor summit, Affleck shared his thoughts while speaking to Squawk on the Street co-anchor David Faber.
When asked if AI is a benefit or threat to Hollywood creatives, in response Affleck replied, “AI can write you excellent imitative verse that sounds Elizabethan. It cannot write you Shakespeare. The function of having two actors or three or four actors in a room and the taste to discern and construct… that is something that currently entirely alludes AI’s capability and I think will for a meaningful period of time. What AI is going to do is dis-intermediate …