{"id":618140,"date":"2026-10-02T05:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618140\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T05:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:20:09","slug":"ben-affleck-used-ai-for-lots-of-things-in-netflixs-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618140\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck Used AI For “Lots Of Things” In Netflix’s ‘Animals’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter unloading his AI firm<\/a> on Netflix<\/a> earlier this year, Ben Affleck<\/a> is showing off the tech in action with his latest project.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2x Oscar winner recently revealed that he \u201cdid use\u201d artificial intelligence<\/a> \u201cfor lots of things\u201d in the making of Animals<\/a>, which he co-wrote, directed and starred in, premiering Oct. 9 in select theaters and on Netflix.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI used [AI<\/a>] for lots of things in that movie,\u201d he revealed at a Q&A<\/a> for Bloomberg Screentime. \u201cI\u2019m a little bit hesitant to point out what they are or even talk about it because, in my business, we\u2019re trying to foster the illusion of reality, right? It\u2019s sort of like if you went to a magic show and the magician walked out and said, \u2018Just before I start, I want you to know there\u2019s another bunny under here. This guy\u2019s a plant.\u2019 It sort of ruins it, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAffleck continued, \u201cBut yes, we did use it. And in fact, I thought it was a good example because it\u2019s a very human movie. It\u2019s not in space, it doesn\u2019t have visual effects, but it allowed us to move in some cases more quickly, really mostly in post-production, to do things that otherwise we wouldn\u2019t have been able to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCo-written by Affleck, Connor O. McIntyre and Billy Ray, Animals stars Affleck as Los Angeles mayoral candidate Mark Kimball, whose son is kidnapped, giving him and wife Abigail (Kerry Washington) a few hours to get their hands dirty and come up with the ransom money.<\/p>\n

\n\tAffleck\u2019s latest Netflix film comes after the streamer bought his AI firm InterPositive<\/a> in March for $587 million<\/a>. He quietly founded the company in 2022 and served as CEO, taking on a senior advisor role after Netflix\u2019s acquisition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After unloading his AI firm on Netflix earlier this year, Ben Affleck is showing off the tech in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,50,363,364,9896,1094,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-618140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-animals","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ben-affleck","tag-netflix","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}