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Ben Affleck

Co-Founder and CEO, Artists Equity · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ben Affleck is an Academy Award-winning actor and filmmaker known for films such as Good Will Hunting and Argo. In 2022, he co-founded the production company Artists Equity alongside Matt Damon and RedBird Capital Partners, serving as its CEO.

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Ben Affleck doubts AI will ever generate whole movies or meaningful writing
“I actually don't think it's very likely that it can, it's going to be able to write anything meaningful, or, and in particular, That it's going to be making movies like from whole cloth, like Tilly Norwood, like that's bullshit. I don't think that's going to h…”
Ben Affleck Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 18:05 X’s $1M Sweepstakes, Ben Affleck’s viral take on AI, Elon sues OpenAI for $134B | Diet TBPN
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Ben Affleck: LLMs write poorly because they inherently regress to the mean
“What I see is, for example, if you try to get ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini to write you something, it's, Really shitty, and it's shitty because by its nature, it goes to the mean, to the average, and it's not reliable, and it's, I mean, I just can't even stand …”
Ben Affleck Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 17:36 X’s $1M Sweepstakes, Ben Affleck’s viral take on AI, Elon sues OpenAI for $134B | Diet TBPN

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X’s $1M Sweepstakes, Ben Affleck’s viral take on AI, Elon sues OpenAI for $134B | Diet TBP Jan 20, 2026 2m
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