Seth Rogen told Brut at the Cannes Film Festival that if he uses AI to write stories and screenplays, he “shouldn’t be a writer.”
Asked about AI in filmmaking, Rogen said, “I don’t understand what AI does.” “Every time I see a video like ‘Hollywood is Cooking’ on Instagram, what follows is the stupidest dog shit I’ve ever seen in my life. And if your instinct is to use AI and you don’t want to go through that process. You shouldn’t be a writer, because you don’t write.”
“Just do something else. If you don’t want to go through that process, you shouldn’t be a writer. The idea of tools to write less doesn’t appeal to me, because I love writing.”
Rogen is in Cannes to promote his new animated film, “Tangles,” about a young woman battling her mother’s Alzheimer’s disease. When the interviewer commented that he was glad the film didn’t use AI, Rogen said, “No, it’s not. It’s hand-drawn animation. There’s a human touch to every frame, and that’s great.”
When Seth Rogen’s wife, producer Miller Rogen, spoke to Variety about Tangles, she said she felt a direct connection to the film’s illustrator Sarah, as her mother also had Alzheimer’s disease.
“There were so many similarities between my family and Sarah’s family,” Miller-Rogen said. “Both of our mothers were teachers and were diagnosed with dementia in their early 50s. I empathized with the denial, fear and isolation that comes with a dementia diagnosis.”
