"As an Oscar-winning screenwriter himself for Good Will Hunting (not to mention an acclaimed actor, director, and producer), Affleck knows a thing or two about the movie business, and he summed up AI-generated creative writing in one word: "shitty." "By its nature, it goes to the mean, to the average," he said on a January episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. "And it's not reliable. I mean, I can't even stand to see what it writes.""
"But if Affleck is right, then why are artists of all kinds being fed the narrative that AI will be stealing their jobs? Fearmongering from the AI industry is to blame, he claims. "There's a lot more fear, because we have this sense, this existential dread: 'It's gonna wipe everything out!' Affleck explained on the podcast. "But that actually runs counter, in my view, to what history seems"
AI video-generation tools such as Seedance 2.0 can fabricate realistic movie scenes, from celebrity fight sequences to alternate franchise endings. AI-generated creative writing tends to produce average, unoriginal output that is often unreliable and lacks depth. AI is more likely to serve as a filmmaking tool comparable to visual effects than to author entire films from scratch. Industry narratives and promotional messaging amplify fears that AI will eliminate creative jobs, fueling existential dread among artists. Historical patterns suggest technological tools usually augment human creators rather than wholly replace them. Social media amplification accelerates perceptions of AI capability but often reflects experimentation rather than production-grade creativity. The balance between technological capability and human imagination will determine how AI integrates into filmmaking workflows.
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