Seth Rogen Says If You Use AI to Write, Then You Shouldn’t Be a Writer

Seth Rogen told Brut at the Cannes Film Festival that if you use AI to write your stories or scripts, then you “shouldn’t be a writer.”

“I don’t understand what it’s supposed to do,” Rogen said when asked about AI in filmmaking. “Every time I see a video on Instagram that’s like, ‘Hollywood is cooked,’ what follows is the most stupid dog shit I’ve ever seen in my life. And if your instinct is to use AI and not go through that process. You shouldn’t be a writer. Because you’re not writing.”

He continued, “Go do something else. And if you don’t want to go through the process, you shouldn’t be a writer. The idea of a tool that makes me write less is not appealing to me, because I like writing.”

Rogen is at Cannes to promote his new animated film “Tangles,” which follows a young woman as she grapples with her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis. When the interviewer commented that she was happy there was no AI used in the film, Rogen said, “Not at all. It’s hand-drawn animation. Every frame has a human touch to it, which is great.”

When discussing “Tangles” with Variety, producer Miller Rogen, who is Seth Rogen’s wife, said she felt an immediate connection to the main character, an illustrator named Sarah, because her mom also suffered from Alzheimer’s.

“There were so many similarities between my family and Sarah’s family,” Miller Rogen said. “Our moms were both teachers who were diagnosed in their early 50s. I related to the denial, fear and sense of aloneness that can come with a dementia diagnosis.”