Seth Rogen spoke about the impact of artificial intelligence on writers during an interview with Brut America at the Cannes Film Festival while promoting his new animated film Tangles alongside his wife Lauren Miller and author Sarah Leavitt.

“If your instinct is to use AI and not go through that process, you shouldn’t be a writer, right?” Rogen said. “Because then you’re not writing. Go do something else,” he added.

Miller echoed the sentiment, saying, “It’s using a computer.” Rogen further said, “The whole idea of a tool that makes me write less is not appealing to me because I like writing.”

The discussion later shifted to the debut of Tangles, which is inspired by Leavitt’s real-life experience of losing her mother to Alzheimer’s disease.

Leavitt, who also works as a creative writing professor, said the creative process itself was something AI could not replicate.

“One of the things we like to say to our students is that one of the things AI can’t go through is the creative process,” she said. “You’re not just creating a finished product. You’re going through the process of figuring it out, which we did for 10 years,” she added.

Miller said the emotional experiences behind the film could not simply be replicated through technology.

“I don’t know how you could feed in what we went through. Whatever is inside us that got in there while we were caring for our mothers in this painful way translates into the fact that when the line was drawn by a hand, that hand was moved by someone who felt emotions instead of a programme,” she said.

The interviewer concluded by saying, “It made me happy that there was no AI in this film.” “It has at least a human touch to it,” Rogen replied.

Tangles premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14. The film follows a young artist named Saah, who returns to her small town in 1990s San Francisco and discovers that her mother, Midge, is beginning to lose her vibrant personality to Alzheimer’s disease.