Ben Affleck Claims His $587M AI Deal With Netflix Means a Lot More Than Just Money
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Ben Affleck Says He Panicked After His First Look At AI & Called Matt Damon: “Dude…We’re Finished”
Director, producer, writer, and actor Ben Affleck has been an early adopter of generative AI with a company that he sold to Netflix for millions (the artificial intelligence startup, InterPositive, for $587 million in cash by the streaming giant), but the Hollywood creative says he was initially terrified of the technology and thought his entire industry was cooked. In a recent Bloomberg Screentime podcast live panel, they had a conversation wi…
Ben Affleck, by his own admission, had something of a “heart attack” when he first saw what a new generation of artificial intelligence could do to a movie. His next move wasn’t to run away from it. He started a company. InterPositive is developing AI tools for the film industry, and Netflix this year agreed to pay up to $600 million for the firm.
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