The source reports that Affleck’s recent appearances—including on GQ’s “One More Question” series and at Bloomberg’s Screentime conference—have gone viral because he speaks fluently about AI’s technical side. He described himself as having been into computers since he was young, and he says he can write “pretty shitty Python scripts.” He traced his interest to the industry’s shift from analog to digital film, where machine learning entered the visual-effects workflow.
Affleck also detailed how he built his own dataset for his startup, shooting for about eight months to create late-stage training data for open models. He explained that he fine-tuned open-source models by unfreezing weights and training only the final “cinematic layer,” a technique he used in his film “Animals.” He said he worries less about AI taking over movies and more about practical issues like students relying on it and rising grade inflation. The source reports only his perspective, with no conflicting accounts.