Emma Thompson Tells AI to ‘Just F— Off!’ and Calls It an ‘Intense Irritation’ as a Screenwriter: ‘Will You Just F— Off? I’m So Annoyed’

Emma Thompson lost it on “The Late Show” when host Stephen Colbert asked about her feelings regarding “the coming AI revolution” in Hollywood. As an Oscar and BAFTA-winning screenwriter thanks to her 1995 adaptation of “Sense & Sensibility,” Thompson is especially irate when it comes to AI chatbots asking to rewrite her work.

“Intense irritation. I cannot begin to tell you,” Thompson said about her feelings on AI. “Because I write long hand on a pad, old script actually, because I believe that there is a connection between the brain and the hand. So it’s very important to me. And then when I’ve written something, I will put it into a Word document. And recently, the Word document is constantly saying, ‘Would you like me to rewrite that for you?’ And so I end up just saying, ’I don’t need you to rewrite what I’ve just written,…