‘I can’t stand what it writes’: Ben Affleck and Matt Damon share their views on using AI to write movies, but admit it could become a new editing tool

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are busy with promoting their new Netflix movie The Rip, and their recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Podcast has everyone talking about AI’s place in film production.

As well as their discussion about the best streaming services allegedly ‘dumbing down’ movies to cater to doomscrollers and background viewers, the long-time collaborators had a few things to say about the direction of AI and whether or not it’s a valuable means of enhancing human creativity for movie making.

Affleck didn’t hold back, claiming that generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT will never be able to replicate the nuance of art produced by humans: “If you try to get ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to write you something, it’s really sh***y, because by its nature it goes to the mean, to the average”, he starts, implying that the ...