AI researchers told Ben Affleck the model would "just generalize" with more data, and he bet against them

He talks about the origin of InterPositive, the film-AI company he founded in 2022. Ultimately Netflix bought that company in March-2026 for $587 mn in cash.

His AI model for filmmakers was trained on a dataset he created himself over months of shooting with cameras, location sensors.

The story leading up to it is that AI researchers told him their models would learn how film images are made just from enough scraped data, he disagreed, turned down offers from AI companies to build it for him, and started the company that he later sold to Netflix.

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