Ben Affleck explains why AI won't ruin Hollywood (he seems fine actually)

Ben Affleck also went off on AI in Hollywood: LLM fim script outputs are mid (“by its nature, [the models go] to the mean, the average”) but they are useful tools for research doesn’t think it’ll ever make a film whole cloth it’s a tool just like VFX and will be useful to save money to create certain background settings (which already happens with CGI) guilds already protect human actors from being totally erased from certain films there’s also laws in place to protect name and likeness says most new technologies take time to disperse through society thinks fearmongering of “all the jobs are going to be taken” is the AI labs hyping for fundraising (“they need to justify valuation around companies…they need to ascribe a valuation for investment for the CAPEX spend they will make on data centres”)