. “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.”. 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.
“AI is a craftsman at best,” he added. “Craftsmen can learn to make Stickley Furniture by sitting down next to somebody and seeing what their technique is and imitating. That’s how ... large language models basically work ... They’re just cross-pollinating things that exist. Nothing new is created.”“Craftsman is knowing how to work,” he continued. “Art is knowing when to stop.