‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry endorsed Actor and filmmaker Ben Affleck’s recent critique of AI, signaling strong agreement with the Hollywood star’s skepticism regarding the technology.

AI Output Is ‘Not Reliable’

On Sunday, in a post on X, Burry shared a recent snippet featuring Affleck in an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, in which Affleck criticized the current capabilities of large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, arguing that their output was fundamentally “not reliable.”

Burry said that Affleck was “clearly a smart guy,” while calling his arguments familiar and “on point.” Burry also said that it was “delivered much better than I ever could.”

On the podcast, Affleck argued that the models are designed to reflect the “average,” making them incapable of replacing genuine human creativity.

While acknowledging certain narrow use-cases for the technology, Affleck expressed doubt that AI will ever produce truly meaningful writing, and brushed aside claims that it could one day generate entire films on ...