Affleck goes viral for fluent breakdown of AI filmmaking tools

Ben Affleck went viral in the week of October 8, 2026 after detailed interviews on AI for filmmaking on GQ's 'One More Question' and with Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw at Screentime 2026 in Los Angeles. He covered machine learning, neural networks, transformers (the architecture behind modern AI), tensors, GPUs and inference (running trained models), plus fine-tuning open-source models by unfreezing weights.