Los Angeles, Dec. 1 -- Filmmaker James Cameron has expressed deep concern over the accelerating use of generative artificial intelligence in Hollywood, calling the notion that AI could replace an actor and create an entire performance from a simple text prompt "horrifying," Variety reported.
The Avatar and Terminator director recalled that even during the development of the first Avatar film in 2005, some in the industry assumed he was trying to replace human actors with computer-generated characters.
Cameron dismissed those claims, emphasising that his work has always placed actors at the heart of storytelling.
"For years, there was this belief that we were trying to replace actors with computers," he said. "But if you really look at wh...