James Cameron says AI actors are ‘horrifying to me’

Avatar director, known for his advocacy of new technology, told interviewer generative AI performance puts all human experience into a blender'

Avatar director James Cameron has called AI actors horrifying" and said what generative AI technology creates is an average".

Cameron was speaking to CBS on Sunday Morning in the run-up to the release of the third Avatar film, subtitled Fire and Ash, and was asked about the pioneering technology he used in his film-making. After praising motion-capture performance as a celebration of the actor-director moment", Cameron expressed his disdain for artificial intelligence. Go to the other end of the spectrum [from motion capture] and you've got generative AI, where they can make up a character. They can make up an actor. They can make up a performance from scratch with a text prompt. It's like, no. That's horrifying to me. That's the opposite. That's exactly what we're not doing."