Actor Nebli Basani: AI Writes Are Human Writes
Published: 12.10.2025
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In this first-of-its-kind TalentNews Exclusive, we offer you an original Op-Ed by renowned British actor of Albanian origin, Nebli Basani — a frequent guest of Bulgaria's Capital City, Sofia🇧🇬, where he has worked on the sets of such movies as Shadow Land, Man with No Past, and High Ground, to name a few.
AI Writes Are Human Writes?
by Nebli Basani
As much as I admire the steps being taken to protect human rights with regards to AI, we need to look reality in the eye. The Writers’ Strike ran from May 2023 to September 2023, and now, in October 2025, AI has already leapt forward in ways we barely predicted.
Since then, systems like Gemini 2.5 can think, see, hear, and create on demand. Agentic AIs can act, not just answer. Robots now interpret language and manipulate objects in physical space (Helix). AI is designing better AI, optimizing chips, algorithms, and code. Models with trillions of parameters and token windows stretching into the hundreds of thousands are the new normal. For those who struggle understanding all of this in one sentence I am saying: AI has gone from a tool we use, to a force that’s now creating, improving, and evolving itself faster than any of us can keep up. In just two years, the gap between legislation and technology has grown into a chasm.
I hear a lot recently about “let’s regulate.” Sure, I guess we can regulate. However, that means one country, or a few, regulating, while the rest of the world continues developing and programming Artificial Intelligence. In this new world, it would leave them behind and in an ever-multiplying, evolving technology that has already shaken the world thus far.
Any attempt to regulate will work… in the short term. But with other countries not regulating, their technology and ecosystems will continue to advance and the country that regulates simply won’t.
There is an alternative, and really the only solution: for the whole world to come to a consensus on its uses and misuses. And sure, the world has agreed before, but never at the speed AI demands.
Any attempt will be messy, imperfect, and slower than how fast the technology is actually evolving. By the time one law is passed, it will have multiplied by eight if we assume AI capabilities double every twelve months and a major regulation takes three years to pass and implement. But according to futurist Ray Kurzweil’s “Law of Accelerating Returns,” that growth isn’t just steady doubling, it’s compounding. Each breakthrough builds the foundation for the next at an exponential rate. In his words, “The reality of information technology is that it progresses exponentially… step thirty, you’re at a billion.”
So by the time one law crawls through government, AI may not just be eight times more powerful, it could, in theory and has not disappointed up until now, be hundreds or even thousands of times more advanced.
That’s the reality we’re facing. While governments are still debating definitions, AI is learning, adapting, and replicating faster than legislation can crawl through committees.
California’s new laws protecting actors from AI replicas are a perfect example. They’re landmark victories that are necessary and overdue. But even as those protections take shape, AI technology has already leapt ahead. We can now recreate not just a face or a voice, but entire performances, emotions, and personalities. As has been shown by OpenAI’s Sora 2, which was just released days ago.
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