Seth Rogen pulled exactly zero punches when asked about the supposed threat of AI in Hollywood.
The 2x Golden Globe winner called AI-generated content “stupid dog shit” and went as far as to say that people who use AI in their writing “shouldn’t be a writer,” while discussing his and wife Lauren Miller Rogen’s new animated film Tangles.
“I don’t understand what it’s supposed to do,” he told Brut. “Every time I see a video on Instagram that’s like, ‘Hollywood is cooked,’ what follows is the most stupid dog shit I’ve ever seen in my life.”
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Rogen continued, “And if your instinct is to use AI and not go through that process, you shouldn’t be a writer. Because you’re not writing. Go do something else. And if you don’t want to go through the process, you shouldn’t be a writer. The idea of a tool that makes me write less is not appealing to me, because I like writing.”
The Tangles producer/star took pride in the fact that no AI was used in the making of the Leah Nelson-helmed animated film about a young woman dealing with her mother’s Alzheimer diagnosis and its impact on her family.
“Not at all,” said Rogen, who co-founded the Alzheimer’s nonprofit Hilarity for Charity with wife Miller Rogen. “It’s hand-drawn animation. Every frame has a human touch to it, which is great.”
Before Tangles premiered Friday at Cannes, earning a seven-minute ovation, Miller Rogen told Deadline the movie “spoke to me in such a sincere and deep way” after her late mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
