"She explained to Colbert that she writes longhand because she believes there is a "connection between the brain and the hands," but will transfer her completed work to a computer afterward. "Recently, the Word document is constantly saying, 'Would you like me to rewrite that for you?'" Thompson said, in an apparent reference to Microsoft's AI-powered assistant 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,'" And speaking of the link between the brain and the body, Thompson's clenched fists by the end of this story are certainly helpful at emphasizing her thoughts."
"Thompson recalled that when she was writing the Academy Award-winning screenplay for the 1995 period drama Sense and Sensibility, there was a moment when the computer appeared to turn all of her writing into "hieroglyphs." She went to Stephen Fry in her dressing gown, and it ultimately took him eight hours before he got the computer to spit out the script in "one long sentence." Looking back, Thompson reflected that it felt like the machine had hidden her work "on purpose.""
Emma Thompson feels intense irritation about artificial intelligence. She composes longhand because she believes in a connection between the brain and the hands, then transfers completed work to a computer. Her word processor repeatedly offers to rewrite her text, prompting a profane and emphatic rejection. A past incident during the creation of the 1995 screenplay Sense and Sensibility involved a computer rendering her work as "hieroglyphs," requiring Stephen Fry eight hours to recover a usable single-sentence version. She interprets that episode as the machine hiding her output on purpose and remains combative toward automated rewriting.
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