Emma Thompson 'so annoyed' by AI prompts when writing

Emma Thompson has spoken of her frustration over the increasing proliferation of AI prompts when writing.

- Catherine Shoard

Speaking to Stephen Colbert on his late night talkshow, Thompson, who won an Oscar for her 1996 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, spoke of her "intense irritation" with AI.

Clenching her fists, Thompson told Colbert that she usually wrote scripts longhand due to a belief in a "connection between the brain and the hands", before transferring the script to Microsoft's word-processing app.

"Recently, the Word document is constantly saying, 'Would you like me to rewrite that for you?'" said Thompson, in reference to Word's AI system Copilot. "And so I end up just going, 'I don't need you to fucking rewrite what I've just written! Will you fuck off? Just fuck off! I'm so annoyed."