{"id":151015,"date":"2025-10-29T07:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/151015\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T07:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:05:16","slug":"emma-thompson-slams-ai-as-annoying-and-an-intense-irritation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/151015\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Thompson Slams AI as ‘Annoying’ and an ‘Intense Irritation’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEmma Thompson<\/a> lost it on \u201cThe Late Show\u201d when host Stephen Colbert asked about her feelings regarding \u201cthe coming AI<\/a> revolution\u201d in Hollywood. As an Oscar and BAFTA-winning screenwriter thanks to her 1995 adaptation of \u201cSense & Sensibility,\u201d Thompson is especially irate when it comes to AI chatbots asking to rewrite her work. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIntense irritation. I cannot begin to tell you,\u201d Thompson said about her feelings on AI. \u201cBecause I write long hand on a pad, old script actually, because I believe that there is a connection between the brain and the hand. So it\u2019s very important to me. And then when I\u2019ve written something, I will put it into a Word document. And recently, the Word document is constantly saying, \u2018Would you like me to rewrite that for you?\u2019 And so I end up just saying, \u2019I don\u2019t need you to rewrite what I\u2019ve just written, will you fuck off?! Just fuck off!\u201d I\u2019m so annoyed.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Colbert told Thompson to just show her computer her Oscar statue for adapted screenplay, Thompson said: \u201cI don\u2019t think it would care.\u201d She then said technology has long complicated her screenwriting process.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I was finishing \u2018Sense & Sensibility\u2019 on the computer, I came back from the bathroom to find that it had changed the entire script into hieroglyphs,\u201d Thompson remembered. \u201cThe script, completely gone. I panicked. I went to Stephen Fry\u2019s house because I didn\u2019t have another copy, and Steven spent 8 hours and it came out in one long sentence. I had to re-do it. The computer had taken it and hidden it\u2026 like it had done it on purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThompson is the latest Oscar winner to speak out against AI in Hollywood. Guillermo del Toro, whose latest movie \u201cFrankenstein\u201d arrives Nov. 7 on Netflix, recently told NPR<\/a> that he would rather die than have to use AI in his filmmaking process.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAI, particularly generative AI \u2014 I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested,\u201d del Toro said. \u201cI\u2019m 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. \u2026 The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, \u2018What is your stance on AI?\u2019 And my answer was very short. I said, \u2018I\u2019d rather die.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch Thompson\u2019s full interview on \u201cThe Late Show\u201d in the video below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Thompson lost it on \u201cThe Late Show\u201d when host Stephen Colbert asked about her feelings regarding \u201cthe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,53241,19,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-151015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-emma-thompson","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115456188280020919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}