Emma Thompson on AI interfering with writing process: “just f*** off. I’m so annoyed”

Emma Thompson feels “intense irritation” with A.I. taking over Hollywood and the world.

During an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Thompson did not mince her words when talking about artificial intelligence in her creative process.

“Intense irritation. I cannot begin to tell you,” Thompson told the CBS late-night host about AI. “Because I write long hand on a pad, old script actually, because I believe that there is a connection between the brain and the hand.”

She continued, “So it’s very important to me. And then when I’ve written something, I will put it into a Word document. And recently, the Word document is constantly saying, ‘Would you like me to rewrite that for you?’ And so I end up just going, ’I don’t need you to rewrite what I’ve just written, will you fuck off?! Just fuck off!” I’m so annoyed.

Colbert suggested Thompson show the computer the Oscar she won in 1995 for Sense and Sensibility.

“I don’t think that it would care,” she said.

Thompson recalled writing her Oscar-winning screenplay and had an issue with technology.

“I remember once when I was finishing Sense and Sensibility on the computer,” she recalled. “I came back from the loo [bathroom] to find that it had changed the entire script into hieroglyphs… completely gone, the script.”

Thompson said she panicked and went to Stephen Fry’s house, who spent eight hours trying to recover her script, “and it came out in one long sentence,” adding, “I had to re-do it. The computer had taken it and hidden it… like it had done it on purpose.”

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