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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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