Aziz Ansari Says He Has a Flip Telephone and No E mail

In a world glued to screens, Aziz Ansari is selecting the analog life.

Throughout an look on Tuesday’s episode of the “Good Hold with Amy Poehler” podcast, the comic spoke about his Luddite methods and why he is not a fan of ChatGPT.

“I haven’t got e-mail. I have never had e-mail for, like, 10 years. However I’ve an assistant,” Ansari advised podcast host Amy Poehler.

And it isn’t simply his inbox that he is deserted.

“I’ve a flip cellphone. If I get actually misplaced, I’ve bought to both ask individuals or simply name my spouse and be like ‘Hey.’ I’ve had to try this earlier than, like, name my spouse, and to the purpose the place she’s type of used to it,” Ansari mentioned.

As a substitute of utilizing an app to name for an Uber, Ansari says he hails a taxi. If there is not one, he’ll name, he added.

Dwelling a low-tech life-style has its advantages, Ansari mentioned.

“It simply offers me extra space to suppose. I imply, I heard one thing about, like, Tarantino does not also have a cellphone. Chris Nolan does not have a cellphone. I used to be like, ‘Whoa, these guys are in a position to get loads of stuff finished. Perhaps there’s one thing to it,'” he mentioned.

The comic says he’s additionally cautious of ChatGPT.

“It is outsourcing essential pondering. It is making everybody’s opinions type of the identical,” Ansari mentioned.

Not solely is AI inclined to creating errors, it reinforces what individuals already suppose, he added.

The comic mentioned he as soon as noticed a industrial by which somebody requested ChatGPT make dinner for a date.

“I’d slightly name somebody and ask somebody, or possibly have some form of dialog, a human factor. It simply looks like it is like outsourcing pondering, and it is like killing some little bit of humanity,” Ansari mentioned.

Talking to Individuals in September, Ansari mentioned he is aware of that his capacity to stay offline comes with a sure stage of privilege and is not lifelike for everybody.

“However for me, it helps me hold a transparent head to assist me write and do what’s extra essential for my job,” he mentioned.

A consultant for Ansari didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark despatched by Enterprise Insider outdoors common hours.

Ansari is not the one celeb who has spoken about preferring an analog life-style.

In July 2023, Christopher Nolan mentioned he does not carry a smartphone or use e-mail. The filmmaker mentioned he writes scripts on a pc with out the web.

“If I am producing my materials and writing my very own scripts, being on a smartphone all day would not be very helpful for me,” Nolan advised The Hollywood Reporter.

Dolly Parton mentioned throughout an October 2023 look on “The View” that she nonetheless prefers speaking through fax as a result of in any other case, she’d be overwhelmed by all of the messages she will get.

“So I by no means did get into getting concerned in all that as a result of it’s going to take up an excessive amount of of my time if I talked to everyone who’s making an attempt to get in contact with me,” Parton mentioned.

In January, Christopher Walken advised The Wall Avenue Journal that his relationship with expertise is sort of nonexistent.

“I solely have a satellite tv for pc dish on my home. So I’ve seen ‘Severance’ on DVDs that they are ok to ship me. I haven’t got a cellphone. I’ve by no means emailed or, what do you name it, Twittered,” Walken mentioned.

It is not simply Hollywood: In a Might story, common individuals advised Enterprise Insider that they swapped smartphones for dumb telephones to wean themselves off their screens and social media.

Some Gen Zs are even chaining their smartphones to a wall — making a makeshift landline —and liberating themselves from the urge to scroll.