Overview
- On The Late Show, Thompson called AI an “intense irritation,” saying she drafts by hand because she believes in a brain–hand connection.
- She said that after transferring pages into Word, the software repeatedly asks to rewrite her text, prompting her expletive-laced rejection of the feature.
- Thompson recounted a 1990s mishap finishing Sense & Sensibility when a computer corrupted her script into “hieroglyphs,” which Stephen Fry spent hours helping recover.
- Outlets framed her comments within a broader wave of creative pushback against AI, citing recent critiques from figures like Guillermo del Toro, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and SAG-AFTRA leaders.
- Reports linked her frustration to Word’s Copilot introduced earlier this year, noted users can disable it, and said no Microsoft policy change or formal response had been published.