{"id":379261,"date":"2026-01-19T23:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379261\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:48:11","slug":"ben-affleck-on-ai-in-hollywood-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379261\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck On AI In Hollywood: Reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is one of the best takes I&#8217;ve heard on AI. Totally didn&#8217;t expect it to come from this guy,\u201d another user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/austriker27\/status\/2013098430764061178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">confessed<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But others were keen to point out that this is actually in keeping with Ben\u2019s reputation, with one viral tweet <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MattZeitlin\/status\/2012690531751498166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reading<\/a>: \u201cYou must understand this: he\u2019s the smart one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And somebody else <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MelOrWhatever\/status\/2012669766813515926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">added<\/a>: \u201cSick of people always acting surprised that very intelligent and successful writer\/director\/actor and known union activist Ben Affleck knows what he is talking about in most instances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nabeelazeez\/status\/2013105460774322407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">theorized<\/a>: \u201cMost people&#8217;s impression of Ben Affleck comes from the character he played in Good Will Hunting. So for the past however many decades they&#8217;ve gone around thinking he&#8217;s some oaf and Matt Damon is the smart one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While one more <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/THISisLULE\/status\/2012799302691672517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">joked<\/a>: \u201cEvery press tour he does we\u2019re reminded of how smart and insightful Ben Affleck is and then his personal dramas overshadow these little impressive moments and we forget again until the next press tour.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is one of the best takes I&#8217;ve heard on AI. Totally didn&#8217;t expect it to come from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,2553,56,2554,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-379261","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-technology","12":"tag-timely","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-uk-celeb-team","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}