{"id":265361,"date":"2025-11-01T17:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265361\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T17:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:37:12","slug":"emma-thompson-ai-rant-is-what-the-boom-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265361\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Thompson AI Rant Is What the Boom Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Emma Thompson is very good at many things \u2014 acting, screenwriting, penning children\u2019s books \u2014 and in recent years, she\u2019s also become quite accomplished at <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/celebrity\/emma-thompson-hates-the-word-content-to-describe-movies-tv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">going viral<\/a>. She did it again this week, during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, with a furious (and furiously funny) <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/emma-thompson-ai-annoying-irritation-1236563757\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">profanity-laden dismissal<\/a> of the increasingly inescapable scourge of generative artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">She wasn\u2019t specifically talking about the high-end use of AI in filmmaking. Her irritation stemmed from the first step of the process: transferring her writing, done in longhand, into a Word document. With a flurry of f-bombs and mounting exasperation, she described how tired she is of the software asking if she\u2019d like it to rewrite her work \u2014 a moment that perfectly captures the creeping intrusion of AI into tasks that once felt simple and organic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Thompson is very good at many things \u2014 acting, screenwriting, penning children\u2019s books \u2014 and in recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,38548,9135,134,16919,1999,142586,54181,108,7271,74,3266],"class_list":["post-265361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-emma-thompson","tag-executives","tag-jobs","tag-national-public-radio","tag-new-york-city","tag-quincy-ann-marie-jones","tag-riyadh","tag-social-media","tag-software","tag-technology","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}