Will you f**k off? I don’t need you to rewrite this!: Actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson

Los Angeles: Actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson has made her feelings about artificial intelligence abundantly clear, describing it as “annoying” and “intensely irritating” during a recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Speaking to host Stephen Colbert, the Sense and Sensibility star explained that she prefers to write her scripts by hand, believing the process to be more creatively authentic.

“Intense irritation. I cannot begin to tell you. Because I write longhand on a pad, old script actually, because I believe that there is a connection between the brain and the hand,” Thompson said.

She went on to describe her frustration with modern writing software, which increasingly incorporates AI-powered suggestions.

"So it's very important to me. And then when I've written something, I will put it into a Word document. And recently, the Word document is constantly saying, 'Would you like me to rewrite that for you?' And so I end up just going, 'I don't need you to rewrite what I've just written, will you f**k off?! Just f**k off!" I'm so annoyed."

Thompson also recalled an earlier run-in with technology while finishing her Oscar-winning screenplay for Sense and Sensibility.

“I remember once when I was finishing Sense and Sensibility on the computer,” she said. “I came back from the loo to find that it had changed the entire script into hieroglyphs… completely gone, the script.”

Panicking, she turned to fellow actor and writer Stephen Fry for help.

“I went to Stephen Fry’s house, who spent eight hours trying to recover my script, and it came out in one long sentence,” she revealed. “I had to re-do it. The computer had taken it and hidden it… like it had done it on purpose.”

Thompson’s comments come amid growing debate in Hollywood over the role of AI in the creative industries.