"If you try to get ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini to write you something, it’s really sh*tty. And it’s sh*tty because, by its nature, it goes to the mean, to the average, and it’s not reliable," said Hollywood actor and filmmaker Ben Affleck. He believes the "taste to discern and construct" a scene between actors in a room is something that currently entirely eludes AI.
His views are in keeping with what many tech-literate folks are saying. "Movies are still star driven. Tom Cruise might sell his likeness someday but you will never be able to afford it and if you use it without permission you will never be able to monetize it. Or you will just get sued. What about animated or fully digital films? They still use actors whose names you all know to do the voices. Even AVATAR uses real actors for motion capture. Why? Because acting is a talent," wrote Hollywood Script Reader. "If you have access to all this technology then so does Hollywood and their tech will always be much much better than yours. Suddenly, you're not competing with these bloated $100M+ productions. It gets cheaper and easier for them too. So any advantage you think you may have had has evaporated just like that," the page adds.
