Ben Affleck: Seeing OpenAI's text-to-image made me call Matt Damon to say "we're finished"
infoxiao · x · 2026-10-02
Ben Affleck recounts walking into OpenAI to see its text-to-image work, panicking enough to call Matt Damon and warn "we have to make as many movies as possible, we're finished" — before realizing its researchers knew little about how movies are actually made. In the same conversation, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he writes 1,000 words a day of one-line ideas (30,000/year) and uses AI to rescue ideas that initially looked stupid.
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